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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



... are suffering! But let me see! only wait in the passage until I have my dressing-gown, and then come ...
— His Hour • Elinor Glyn
... having observed by the preacher (La Motte's) manner that he was not likely to convey the last messages which he had mentioned to his wife and children, sent a request to the judges to be allowed to write one more letter. Captain van der Meulen came back with the permission, saying he would wait and take it to the judges for ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... his quarry was by this time far out of reach among the tangled ravines on the other side of Two Mountains, he dismissed the two tired river-men who constituted his posse, bidding them go on down the river to Greensville and wait for him. It was his plan to hunt alone for a couple of days in the hope of catching his adversary off guard. He had an ally, unsuspected and invaluable, in a long-legged, half-wild youngster of a girl, who lived alone with her ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts
... dry, and Sir Walter had a mind to ride into it a little way and see how far one could really go. If wild hogs were rooting about the place it would be well to know it. Bidding Eleanor wait for him in the tiny clearing, he and the Prior pushed their horses in among the reeds where a ridge offered a fair foothold. Marcel, the squires and Roger were not far off, having ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... common way of explaining away opposition. In their more libelous form such charges rarely reach the printed page, and a Roosevelt may have to wait years, or a Harding months, before he can force an issue, and end a whispering campaign that has reached into every circle of talk. Public men have to endure a fearful amount of poisonous clubroom, dinner table, boudoir slander, repeated, elaborated, chuckled over, and regarded ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann


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