Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To wait for. synonym: expect.
- intransitive verb To be kept as ready for.
- intransitive verb To be in store for.
- intransitive verb To be in store.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To watch for; lie in wait for.
- To wait for; look for or expect.
- To be in store for; attend; be ready for: as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
- To watch; give heed.
- noun Astate of waiting; watch; ambush.
- In wait.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To watch.
- intransitive verb obsolete To wait (
on orupon ). - intransitive verb To wait; to stay in waiting.
- noun obsolete A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.
- transitive verb obsolete To watch for; to look out for.
- transitive verb obsolete To wait on, serve, or attend.
- transitive verb To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See
Expect . - transitive verb To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, formal To
wait for. - verb transitive To
expect . - verb transitive To be
in store for; to beready or in waiting for - verb transitive To wait on,
serve orattend (to). - verb intransitive To
watch ,observe . - verb intransitive To wait (on or upon).
- verb intransitive To wait; to stay in waiting.
- noun obsolete A waiting for;
ambush . - noun obsolete
Watching ,watchfulness , suspiciousobservation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb look forward to the probable occurrence of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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State of Sept. 2, 2005: Distant kin await close encounter
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With what composure could Great Britain await the German reoccupation of Tanganyika by which, with Italians already in control of Libya, the encirclement of Egypt and the Soudan would be made complete?
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People who have been dependant to hard drugs should be strongly suggested to find benefit by their GP as great as await from the scrupulously competent obsession advisor (where available), while people who have been dependant to ethanol have been suggested to find benefit from their GP as great as just as importantly find await by the in effect self benefit organisation Alcoholics Anonymous (non-specialist counsellors as great as psychotherapi! sts do n ot usually work privately with drug obsession though many will work with alcoholics).
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Abdullah said, “‘Do ye twain await me whilst I wend thither and return to you.’” — “So I left them and walked on till I came to the gate of the place and saw it
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