await
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await
- /əˈweɪt/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪt
Where it comes from
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.
verb awaits · awaiting · awaited
- To wait for. I await your reply to my letter.
- To expect.
- To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.
- To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
- To watch, observe.
- To wait; to stay in waiting. These are exotic lands where great adventures await.
Similar: anticipate, listen, service
noun awaits
- A waiting for; ambush.
- Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation. Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte, as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
