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Definition of Wait
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

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
Amiri Baraka

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

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde

And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Steven Tyler

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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