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Await (verb)
To wait for.
“I await your reply to my letter.”
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Await (verb)
To expect.
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Await (verb)
To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
“Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.”
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Await (verb)
To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
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Await (verb)
To watch, observe.
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Await (verb)
To wait; to stay in waiting.
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Await (noun)
A waiting for; ambush.
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Await (noun)
Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
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Wait (verb)
To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
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Wait (verb)
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
“Wait here until your car arrives.”
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Wait (verb)
To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
“She used to wait down at the Dew Drop Inn.”
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Wait (verb)
To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
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Wait (verb)
To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
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Wait (verb)
To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
“to wait dinner”
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Wait (verb)
To remain celibate while one’s lover is unavailable.
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Wait (noun)
A delay.
“I had a very long wait at the airport security check.”
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Wait (noun)
An ambush.
“They lay in wait for the patrol.”
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Wait (noun)
One who watches; a watchman.
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Wait (noun)
Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
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Wait (noun)
Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
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Await (verb)
wait for (an event)
“we await the proposals with impatience”
“remand prisoners awaiting trial”
“an eagerly awaited debut”
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Await (verb)
(of an event or circumstance) be in store for (someone)
“many dangers await them”
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Wait (verb)
stay where one is or delay action until a particular time or event
“he did not wait for a reply”
“we’re waiting for Allan to get back”
“Vera did not wait on a Home Office ruling”
“Ben stood on the street corner waiting to cross”
“I had to wait my turn to play”
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Wait (verb)
stay where one is or delay action until (someone) arrives or is ready
“he sits on the corner waiting for Mary”
“she was waiting on her boyfriend”
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Wait (verb)
be left until a later time before being dealt with
“we shall need a statement later, but that will have to wait”
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Wait (verb)
defer (a meal) until a person’s arrival
“I told my parents not to wait supper”
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Wait (verb)
remain in readiness for a purpose
“he found the train waiting on the platform”
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Wait (verb)
(of a vehicle) be parked for a short time at the side of a road.
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Wait (verb)
used to indicate that one is eagerly impatient to do something or for something to happen
“I can’t wait to tell Nick what happened”
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Wait (verb)
act as a waiter or waitress, serving food and drink
“a local man was employed to wait on them at table”
“we had to wait tables in the mess hall”
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Wait (noun)
a period of waiting
“we had a long wait”
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Wait (noun)
street singers of Christmas carols.
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Wait (noun)
official bands of musicians maintained by a city or town.