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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.

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Await Quotations

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 C. Bradley

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

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

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Virgil

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

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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