Waiting

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Quotations 1.4 References

English

Pronunciation

• RP: IPA: /ˈweɪtɪŋ/

Verb

waiting

1. Present participle of to wait.

Derived terms

• waiting room

Noun

waiting

1. ((obsolete{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})) Watching, hence, an ogling.
2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
3. Attendance, service.

Quotations

• ca. 1393: William Langland, Piers Plowman, (C), iii. 94.

  Al the lordshep of lecherye in lengthe and in brede,
  As in workes and in wordes and waitynges of eyes.

• 1871-72: George Eliot, Middlemarch, xxxvi.

  Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.

• 1874: John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, I. 122.

  In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.

• 1876: Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets

  There was an awful waiting in the earth,
  As if a mystery greatened to its birth.

References

• The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911, online at [1]