Wait
To watch; to observe; to take notice.
To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.
To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of; to await; as, to wait orders.
To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait dinner.
The act of waiting; a delay; a halt.
Ambush.
One who watches; a watchman.
Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians; not used in the singular.
Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
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Wait Quotations
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill
Wait Translations
wait in Afrikaans is verwag, wag, wag vir
wait in Dutch is wachten, afhalen, te wachten staan
wait in Finnish is odottaa
wait in French is attendent, attendre, attends, attendons, attendez
wait in German is warten, warte, warten
wait in Norwegian is vente
wait in Portuguese is esperar, espera
wait in Spanish is espera
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