waiting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of wait
    Your guest has been waiting for you. (progressive) Waiting for something to happen is part of the job. (gerund) They hurried into the waiting car. (participle used as adjective)
    In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified. 1874, John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122

noun

  1. (obsolete) Watching.
  2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
    There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth. 1876, Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
  3. Attendance, service.

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