Waiting

Verb
waiting


 * Your guest has been waiting for you.
 * Waiting for something to happen is part of the job.
 * They hurried into the waiting car.
 * 1) * 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122.
 * In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
 * In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.

Derived terms

 * waiting game
 * waiting room

Noun

 * 1)  Watching.
 * 2)  The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
 * 3) * 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
 * There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.
 * 1) Attendance, service.
 * 2) * 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxvi.
 * Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.

Derived terms

 * in waiting

Adverbs for Waiting
silently; doggedly; resolutely; hopelessly; helplessly; intolerably; restlessly; feverishly; optimistically; trustfully; happily; forlornly; eagerly; boisterously; cruelly; miserably; interminably; insistently.

Thesaurus
about to be, agape, agog, all agog, already in sight, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, anxiety, apprehension, approaching, at hand, attendant, attending, awaiting, brewing, certain, cliff-hanging, close, close at hand, coming, confident, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dread, eager, expectant, expectant waiting, expecting, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, forthcoming, future, gaping, gathering, going to happen, helping, hopeful, immediate, imminent, impendent, impending, in anticipation, in danger imminent, in expectation, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, instant, lingering, looking for, looking forward to, looming, lowering, lurking, menacing, menial, ministering, near, near at hand, nearing, not surprised, on the horizon, optimistic, overhanging, pessimism, prepared, preparing, ready, sanguine, servile, serving, servitorial, sure, suspense, tarriance, tarrying, that will be, threatening, to come, uncertainty, unsurprised, upcoming, waiting for, watching for

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: odotus, odottaminen
 * Italian: attesa


 * Japanese: 待つこと
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