<span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">it</span> (idiomatic, colloquial) Used to draw attention to and build suspense, often ironically, <span class="searchmatch">for</span> a remark to come. I just found out that my ex-wife...
(idiomatic) To eagerly anticipate; to find <span class="searchmatch">it</span> hard to <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> a forthcoming pleasurable event. I can't <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> that party on Friday. To need to be attended...
<span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> (third-person singular simple present waits <span class="searchmatch">for</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">waited</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span>) To <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> until the...
<span class="searchmatch">wait</span> and see <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>-and-see <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> around <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>-a-while waiter <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> Godot <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> <span class="searchmatch">it</span> <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> the ball to drop <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> the cat to jump <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>...
stay awake <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> somebody to return. 1980, Joe Garner, Never Fly Over an Eagle's Nest, page 66: Anyway, Dad <span class="searchmatch">waited</span> up <span class="searchmatch">for</span> them. <span class="searchmatch">It</span> must have been...
Rhymes: -æːɪt <span class="searchmatch">wäit</span> (masculine wäiten, neuter <span class="searchmatch">wäit</span>, comparative méi <span class="searchmatch">wäit</span>, superlative am wäitsten) long (distance) far; not close vu <span class="searchmatch">wäit</span> / vu Wäitem from...
<span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span>...
past participle waited one's turn) To <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> until <span class="searchmatch">it</span> is time <span class="searchmatch">for</span> one to do or receive something. Hyponyms: line up, queue up Coordinate term: <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> out...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> and <span class="searchmatch">wäit</span> English surname, variant of Waite. <span class="searchmatch">Wait</span> (plural Waits) A surname. According to the 2010 United States Census, <span class="searchmatch">Wait</span> is the 10145th...
in <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> (third-person singular simple present lies in <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>, present participle lying in <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>, simple past lay in <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>, past participle lain in <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>) (intransitive)...