await

Meanings

Verb

• To wait for.
• To expect.
• To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
• To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
• To watch, observe.
• To wait; to stay in waiting.

Noun

• A waiting for; ambush.
• Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.

Origin

• 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- + waitier. More at English wait.