• (British) IPA: /əˈwɛɪt/

await (awaits, present participle awaiting; past and past participle awaited)

1. (transitive, formal) To wait for.

   I await your reply to my letter.

2. (transitive) To expect.
3. (transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.

   Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
5. (intransitive) To watch, observe.
6. (intransitive) To wait; to stay in waiting.

• (wait for) wait for, anticipate, listen (of a sound); See also Thesaurus:wait for
• (serve or attend) attend to, service; See also Thesaurus:serve

• French: attendre
• German: erwarten, harren, warten
• Italian: aspettare, attendere
• Portuguese: esperar, aguardar
• Russian: ждать
• Spanish: esperar, aguantar

• French: s'attendre à
• Portuguese: esperar
• Russian: ожида́ть
• Spanish: esperar

• Portuguese: esperar
• Russian: ожида́ть

• French: servir
• Italian: servire
• Portuguese: servir
• Russian: обслу́живать

• French: guetter

• French: attendre
• Portuguese: esperar, aguardar

await (plural awaits)

1. (obsolete) A waiting for; ambush.
2. (obsolete) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786 ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034 ↗:

     Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte, as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:

     For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].