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General dictionaries General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. wait: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. wait: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. wait: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. wait: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Wait: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. wait: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. wait: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. wait: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. wait: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. wait (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. wait: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. wait: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. wait: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  14. The Wait (disambiguation), The Wait (song), The Wait, WAIT (AM), WAIT, Wait(), Wait (EP), Wait (Emanuel Nice), Wait (Stealheart song), Wait (The Whisper Song), Wait (Unix), Wait (Wang Chung song), Wait (album), Wait (command), Wait (disambiguation), Wait (musician), Wait (operating system), Wait (song), Wait (system call): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. wait: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  16. Wait: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. wait: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. wait: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. wait: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. wait: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. wait: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  22. wait: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  23. wait: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. wait: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. wait: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. Wait, wait: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. wait: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. Wait: World Wide Words [home, info]
  29. wait: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wait: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wait: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wait: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wait: baby names list [home, info]
  2. wait: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
  3. WAIT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  4. WAIT: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  5. wait: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wait: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (wait)

noun:  the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something) ("The wait was an ordeal for him")
noun:  time during which some action is awaited
verb:  serve as a waiter in a restaurant ("I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's")
verb:  stay in one place and anticipate or expect something ("I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets")
verb:  wait before acting
verb:  look forward to the probable occurrence of ("He is waiting to be drafted")
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #10691)

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Words similar to wait:   await, delay, expect, hold, look, postponement, waited, waiting, bide, hold back, hold off, linger, serve, tarry, time lag, more...


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