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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



... is the Chaudiere, which the Indians follow to reach Quebec. On September 20th Champlain observed the mountains of Bedabedec, and after having proceeded for ten or twelve leagues further he decided to return to Ste. Croix and wait until the following year to continue his explorations. His opinion was that the region he had explored was quite as unfavourable for a ...
— The Makers of Canada: Champlain • N. E. Dionne
... civil and political equality were guaranteed to the inhabitants. Thus it marks the triumph of the principle first tentatively laid down for Holland and Belgium in Article II of the Protocol of June 1814. Though applied to Greece in the Protocol of February 1830, it had had to wait nearly fifty ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... a score of voices about him. One was saying, "Wait a bit"; another, "Pretty soon"; another, "In a minute"; another, "By and by"; and still another, louder than the rest, kept screaming as loud as it could, "Going to, going to, going to," till ...
— New National Fourth Reader • Charles J. Barnes and J. Marshall Hawkes
... have me, Mary Hann,' says he. 'I've saved money. We'll take a public-house and I'll make a lady of you. I'm not a purse-proud ungrateful fellow like Jeames—who's such a snob ('such a SNOB' was his very words!) that I'm ashamed to wait on him—who's the laughing stock of all the gentry and the housekeeper's room too—try a MAN,' says he—'don't be taking on about ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... the trial of Nisi Prius actions. And you know as well as anyone, Mr. Bumpkin, that when you get a load of turnips, or what not, in the market town blocked by innumerable other turnip carts, you must wait. Patience, therefore, good Bumpkin. Justice may be slow-footed, but she is sure handed; she may be blind and deaf, but she is not dumb; as you shall see if you look into one of the "blocked Courts" where a trial has been going on for the last sixteen days. A case involving a dispute of no ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris


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