await

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To wait for something or someone.

   I await your reply to my letter.

2. 2
   verb

   To be going to happen to someone in the future.

   A warm welcome awaits you when you arrive.

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”). More at English wait.

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