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await

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"Wait for"

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5 lettersPronunciation /əˈweɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aaitwStarts with AEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. look forward to the probable occurrence of

Word origin

From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait.

Used in a sentence

  • I await your reply to my letter.
  • Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night;
  • In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!

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