Waiting

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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