1 hoping for sth, especially sth good and exciting:
children with expectant faces waiting for the fireworks to begin * A sudden roar came from the expectant crowd.
2 ~ mother / father / parent used to describe sb who is going to have a baby soon or become a father:
Smoking by expectant mothers may increase the chances of brain damage in their babies.
expectantly adverb:
She looked at him expectantly. * waiting expectantly
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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.
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This entry for expectant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is expectant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, expectant is tagged as adjective.
Does expectant appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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