Definition of Await

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Definition of Await

Await

To watch for; to look out for.

To wait on, serve, or attend.

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.

To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.

To watch.

To wait (on or upon).

To wait; to stay in waiting.

A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.

Related Definitions:

Ambush, As, Attend, Be, Expect, For, Glorious, Good, Heed, In, Look, On, Or, Out, Ready, Reward, See, Serve, Stay, Store, The, To, Upon, Wait, Waiting, Watch, Watching

Await Quotations

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
Louis Farrakhan

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
Susan Sontag

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Virgil

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Pierre Corneille

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
Zebulon Pike

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
Christian Lous Lange

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
Peter Hain

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
Polykarp Kusch

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
Marcelene Cox

Await Translations

await in Afrikaans is verwag, wag, wag vir
await in Dutch is wachten, te wachten staan, afhalen
await in Finnish is odottaa
await in French is temporiser, attendre
await in German is abwarten
await in Latin is exspecto
await in Norwegian is vente
await in Portuguese is esperar, espere
await in Spanish is transcurrir
await in Swedish is avvakta

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