waiting
a period of waiting; pause, interval, or delay.
serving or being in attendance: waiting man;waiting maid;waiting woman.
Idioms about waiting
in waiting, in attendance, as upon a royal personage.
Origin of waiting
1Other words from waiting
- wait·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use waiting in a sentence
Then followed two or three short transits, interspersed with weary waitings at stations.
Uncanny Tales | Mary Louisa MolesworthWomen who had waited, and got patient at last after years of waitings could not endure these additional few hours.
More Cargoes | W. W. JacobsThey need not have feared that their work of defence would be impeded by her waitings and tears.
The Hour and the Man | Harriet MartineauThen they came across each other in their waitings at the Public Library, and so found out their near neighborhood.
The Other Girls | Mrs. A. D. T. WhitneyOne result, one which I fully expected, compensates me straightway for all my weary waitings.
The Mason-bees | J. Henri Fabre
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