Meaning of Waiting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
   countable, uncountable
3. Attendance, service.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Waiting for any news in a waiting room. (gerund)”

“In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.”

“There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.”

“But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.”

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