waiting

[ wey-ting ]
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noun
  1. a period of waiting; pause, interval, or delay.

adjective
  1. serving or being in attendance: waiting man;waiting maid;waiting woman.

Idioms about waiting

  1. in waiting, in attendance, as upon a royal personage.

Origin of waiting

1
First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English (noun); see wait, -ing1, -ing2

Other 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 Molesworth
  • Women who had waited, and got patient at last after years of waitings could not endure these additional few hours.

    More Cargoes | W. W. Jacobs
  • They need not have feared that their work of defence would be impeded by her waitings and tears.

    The Hour and the Man | Harriet Martineau
  • Then 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. Whitney
  • One result, one which I fully expected, compensates me straightway for all my weary waitings.

    The Mason-bees | J. Henri Fabre