noun
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A waiting for; ambush.
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Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
verb
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To wait for.
example
I await your reply to my letter.
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To expect.
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To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
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Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.
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To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
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To watch, observe.
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To wait; to stay in waiting.
Examples of awaits in a Sentence
But what awaits us tomorrow?
Your court awaits you.
Copper is scarcely less widely distributed than gold, but the production of it awaits smelters and better facilities for transportation.
To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles.
The Council awaits you.
That his brother retained the throne while James lost it is an ironical demonstration that a more pitiless fate awaits the ruler whose faults are of the intellect, than one whose faults are of the heart.
An enormous mass of material, mostly quite in the raw, awaits reduction to order on the part of anthropological theorists, as yet a small and ill-supported body of enthusiasts.
A competitive package with a fantastic opportunity for career progression awaits the successful candidate.
Having kissed the hands of the sheikh and teachers of his school, the pupil awaits the beginning of the lectures.
But an inductive and deductive treatment, both comprehensive and in due proportion, does not as yet (19to) exist, and awaits fuller external evidence.'
The next big advance in understanding suicide outside the context of it being a sin awaits the Advent of psychoanalysis.
It is the merit of Hugo Winckler especially to have lifted biblical study out of the somewhat narrow lines upon which it had usually proceeded, but, at the time of writing (1910), Old Testament criticism still awaits a sound reconciliation of the admitted internal intricacies and of the external evidence for Palestine and that larger area of which it forms part.
He approved the constitution which was decided upon, believing, as he said, "that it was the best constitution which could be obtained at that epoch, and that this or a dissolution awaits our choice, and is the only alternative."
In all the tailless batrachians (with the exception of a single known viviparous toad),the male clings to the female round the breast, at the arm-pits, or round the waist, and awaits, often for hours or days, the deposition of the ova, which are immediately fecundated by several seminal emissions.
She succumbed to heat stroke and awaits a new air conditioner to feel better.
But bitter disappointment and rejection awaits her, after she humiliatingly fails a dance audition.
A star-studded line-up of world class bloodlines awaits purchasers at the annual Borderway Black and White Sale at the end of November.
He awaits the consummation of the age, for God has willed that " they without us should not be made perfect.
Pantheism, indeed, is the great deceit which awaits the Age to come.
The, judgment of the millstone awaits the one, perpetual desolations the other.
A shadowy, seemingly faceless monk who appears in the darkness without warning is just one of the delights that awaits unsuspecting visitors.
The Doctor is intending to take her back to her own planet where a rather grisly end awaits her.
The stables are able to be viewed by the public - although the game larder awaits works that will enable it to be viewed.
Because what awaits Serb nationalists in and around Kosovo is unpalatable.
A welcome pack including wine awaits you upon arrival.
God never reneges on His promises, and the reward for your service awaits you.
The Institute of Organ Building, however, is not quite so sanguine about the outcome but awaits the June meeting.
The ultimate panorama awaits on the elevated 4th tee, so spellbinding that golfers can hardly keep their eyes on the ball.
Hakewill's work awaits, but the surviving roodloft stair in the window is nice.
An application for a new mining concession from the French Government has been processed and presently awaits determination by the General Council of Mines.
The concrete plinth awaits the railroad to correct its size.
The true relation of systematic to ecological anatomy (see below) also awaits proper elucidation.
Through a hunter, Eabani and Gilgamesh are brought together, but instead of becoming rivals, they are joined in friendship. Eabani is induced by the snares of a maiden to abandon his life with the animals and to proceed to Erech, where Gilgamesh, who has been told in several dreams of the coming of Eabani, awaits him.
He awaits therefore the judgment and censure of the learned " priusquam caetera in lucem temere prolata lividorum detrectationi exponantur "; and in an " Admonitio " on the last page of the book he states that he will publish the mode of construction of the canon " si huius inventi usum eruditis gratum fore intellexero."
Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone.
Hakewill 's work awaits, but the surviving roodloft stair in the window is nice.
It succumbed to heat stroke on Monday and awaits ministration, and probably a new fan, in a dark corner of a room.
Peace and tranquility combined with dramatic panoramic views to the Cairngorms National Park mountains awaits you at our self catering cottages.
Traps Do Not Always Kill For the animals who remain alive in the traps, further torture awaits them when the trappers return.
Ocalan awaits trial on treason charges in a remote island jail in western Turkey.
A watery grave awaits anything less than a precise iron shot.
At Arles sur Tech, an atmospheric hotel awaits, with peaceful gardens and wisteria vines covering the terrace.
A ski supplies paradise awaits those who decide to do their ski shopping online.
While there is some nuclear waste recycling taking place, much of the waste is stockpiled while it awaits a new life.
An abundant supply awaits the most discriminating of tastes.
In the meantime, while Murray awaits his official court date, a judge barred him from using anesthesia on any of his current patients... given he still has some.
When the ship docks at a port of call, you too have time to explore it; and with each new assignment, a new destination awaits.
For example, a service dog stops at a busy curb and awaits his handler's command to move forward.
You simply can't go wrong at Macy's, where a vast selection of bright, loud, attractive shirts for men awaits.
Once the Tournament is unlocked, a whole new series of fun awaits you.