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Wait   /weɪt/   Listen
Wait

verb
(past & past part. waited; pres. part. waiting)
1.
Stay in one place and anticipate or expect something.
2.
Wait before acting.  Synonyms: hold back, hold off.
3.
Look forward to the probable occurrence of.  Synonyms: await, expect, look.  "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"
4.
Serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.  Synonym: waitress.
noun
1.
Time during which some action is awaited.  Synonyms: delay, hold, postponement, time lag.  "He ordered a hold in the action"
2.
The act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something).  Synonym: waiting.



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"Wait" Quotes from Famous Books



... one (1) married lady and the boy of the lady, I think the married lady is a sister but I do not ask any one, oh—and another brother, who does not live here only on Saturdays and Sundays. Aunt Margaret makes ten, and they have a man to wait on the table. His name is a butler. I guess you have read about them in stories. I am taken right in to be one of the family, and I have a good time every day now. Aunt Margaret's father is a college teacher, ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley
... in the saddle by two A.M. of the 31st. But it proved to be too foggy to push on: he had as yet no guides, and he was obliged to wait for daylight. ...
— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge
... dark womb of sacred earth This labour of our hands is given, As seeds that wait the second birth, And turn to blessings watch'd by heaven! Ah seeds, how dearer far than they We bury in the dismal tomb, Where Hope and Sorrow bend to pray That suns beyond the realm of day ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX. - March, 1843, Vol. LIII. • Various
... more like a triumphant sovereign than a captive. A chosen band of Christian horsemen, splendidly armed, appeared to wait upon her as a mere guard of honor. She was surrounded by the Moorish damsels of her train, and followed by her own Moslem guards, all attired with the magnificence that had been intended to grace her arrival at the court ...
— Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 - Volume 23, Number 3 • Various
... did not wait to hear more, but seizing the affrighted creature by the collar, thundered forth, "I have heard of you before. You are the villain, are you, who has been turning my office into a den of thieves? I have caught you ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne


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