Expect

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of: expecting a telephone call; expects rain on Sunday.
  • v. To consider likely or certain: expect to see them soon. See Usage Note at anticipate.
  • v. To consider reasonable or due: We expect an apology.
  • v. To consider obligatory; require: The school expects its pupils to be on time.
  • v. Informal To presume; suppose.
  • verb-intransitive. To look forward to the birth of one's child. Used in progressive tenses: His sister is expecting in May.
  • verb-intransitive. To be pregnant. Used in progressive tenses: My wife is expecting again.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
  • v. To consider obligatory or required.
  • v. To consider reasonably due.
  • v. to be pregnant, to consider a baby due
  • v. To wait for; to await.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To wait for; to await.
  • v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
  • v. To wait; to stay.
  • n. Expectation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To look for; wait for; await
  • To look for with anticipation; believe in the occurrence or the coming of; await as likely to happen or to appear.
  • To reckon upon, as something to be done, granted, or yielded; desire with confidence or assurance: as, to expect obedience or aid; I shall expect to find that job finished by Saturday; you are expected to be quiet.
  • To count upon in relation to something; trust or rely upon to do or act in some specified way; require or call upon expectantly: as, I expect you to obey, or to perform a task.
  • To suppose; reckon; conclude: applied to things past or present as well as to things future: as, I expect he went to town yesterday.
  • To wait; stay.
  • n. Expectation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. be pregnant with
  • v. regard something as probable or likely
  • v. consider reasonable or due
  • v. look forward to the birth of a child
  • v. look forward to the probable occurrence of
  • v. consider obligatory; request and expect
  • Verb Form
    expectancies    expectancy    expected    expecting    expects   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bear    give birth    birth    have    deliver    reckon    see    consider    regard    view   
    Hyponym
    hold on    anticipate    look to    hang on    look forward    hold the line    look for   
    Form
    unexpected    expected    expecting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    await    anticipate    hope    look for    wait    stay    expectation    contemplate    think    trust   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brecht    Hecht    Select    affect    bedecked    checked    collect    confect    connect    correct   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    oppose    top-line    first-quarter    seven-digit    distributable    troggin    full-year    non-tax    tiddy    year-on-year