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expectant

[ ik-spek-tuhnt ]
/ ÉȘkˈspɛk tənt /
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adjective
having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
pregnant; expecting: an expectant mother.
characterized by expectations: an expectant attitude.
in expectation; expected; prospective: an expectant fortune.
noun
a person who expects or who waits in expectation.
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Origin of expectant

1350–1400; Middle English <Latin expectant- (stem of expectāns), present participle of expectāre to expect; see -ant

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British Dictionary definitions for expectant

expectant
/ (ÉȘkˈspɛktənt) /

adjective
expecting, anticipating, or hopefulan expectant glance
having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity
pregnantan expectant mother
noun
a person who expects something
obsolete a candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment

Derived forms of expectant

expectantly, adverb
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