Usually means: Expectation or prediction of future events.
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  1. anticipation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. anticipation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anticipation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anticipation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anticipation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anticipation, anticipation: Wordnik
  7. anticipation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anticipation: Wiktionary
  9. anticipation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anticipation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anticipation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. anticipation: Dictionary.com
  13. anticipation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Anticipation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anticipation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anticipation: Rhymezone
  18. Anticipation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anticipation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. anticipation: Free Dictionary
  21. anticipation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. anticipation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. anticipation: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  5. anticipation: Legal dictionary
  6. Anticipation: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anticipation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anticipation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. anticipation: Medical dictionary
  4. Anticipation: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anticipation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Anticipation: Sports Definitions

(Note: See anticipations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.
noun:  The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
noun:  (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
noun:  (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
noun:  (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to a note in the next chord.
noun:  (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

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