verb [VN] (formal)
1 to wait for sb/sth:
He is in custody awaiting trial. * Her latest novel is eagerly awaited.
2 to be going to happen to sb:
A warm welcome awaits all our guests. * Who knows what dangers may await us?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for await is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does await appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — await appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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