Synonyms of the word await


AWAITEXPECT - LOOK - WAIT

await

  • v. (transitive, formal) To wait for.
  • v. (transitive) To expect.
  • v. (transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
  • v. (intransitive) To watch, observe.
  • v. (intransitive) To wait; to stay in waiting.
  • n. (obsolete) A waiting for; ambush.
  • n. (obsolete) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.

expect

  • v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or…
  • v. To consider obligatory or required.
  • v. To consider reasonably due.
  • v. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

look

  • v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
  • v. To appear, to seem.
  • v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
  • v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
  • v. To face or present a view.
  • v. To expect or anticipate.
  • v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
  • v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
  • v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
  • v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
  • interj. Pay attention.
  • n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
  • n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
  • n. A facial expression.

wait

  • v. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now…
  • v. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
  • v. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
  • v. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
  • v. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
  • v. (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
  • v. (intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.
  • n. A delay.
  • n. An ambush.
  • n. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
  • n. (in the plural, obsolete, Britain) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
  • n. (in the plural, archaic, Britain) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially…

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