Await Definition
ə-wāt
awaited, awaiting, awaits
verb
awaited, awaiting, awaits
To wait for.
American Heritage
To wait for; expect.
Webster's New World
To wait.
Webster's New World
To be kept as ready for.
A contract awaiting signature.
American Heritage
To be in store for; be ready for.
Webster's New World
noun
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6.
For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
Wiktionary
Origin of Await
From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English awaiten from Old North French awaitier a- on (from Latin ad- ad–) waitier to watch wait
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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