wait

Significat (English)

Verb

1. To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
2. To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
3. To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
4. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
5. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
6. (colloquial,obsolete) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
7. (obsolete) To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
8. To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.

Noun

1. A delay.
2. An ambush.
3. Short for wait state.
4. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
5. (obsolete) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
6. Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.

Intj

Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.

Synonyms

await

expect

wait for

abide

stay

stop

🛑

delay

hold on

waiting

bide

anticipate

tarry

pause

patient

guard

💂

look forward to

remain

expectation

stand

watch

⌚

hang on

wait a minute

waitress

hold

halt

have patience

be patient

attend

serve

look for

look

hope

stay for

hold off

equal

dwell

exist

hold back

keep watch

linger

ok

🆗

postponement

reside

rest

stand still

temporizing

time lag

wait on

just a minute

don’t move

be waiting

lie in wait

ambush

live

defend

dawdle

look forward

dally

look out

look to

needs

not now

wait awhile

contemplate

cheat

position

watch carefully

presently

prudent

rage

😡

rank

cease

wait a bit

stop motion

retard

same

carry

situation

slow down

caroler

stand by

time wasted

by-and-by

still

stopover

take

break

bie still

tidy

wait a little

be located

before

be

let's see now

awaiting

wait up

wants

apprehend

watch for

watch over

waylay

whoa

attendre

get up

hang out

help

hesitate

hiatus

for a moment

anticipation

expectancy

endure

desist

intermit

ive

keep

and so on

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/weɪt/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: waiten

Cognate with francès: guetter

Cognate with francès antic: gaitier

Cognate with alt alemany antic: wahtēn

Cognate with neerlandès: wachten

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: wachtje

Cognate with frisó occidental: wachtsje

Cognate with frisó septentrional: wachtjen

In summary

From Middle English waiten, from Anglo-Norman waiter, waitier (compare French guetter from Old French gaitier, guaitier), from Frankish *wahtwēn (“to watch, guard”), derivative of Frankish *wahtu (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (“guard, watch”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be fresh, cheerful, awake”). Cognate with Old High German wahtēn (“to watch, guard”), German Low German wachten (“to wait”), Dutch wachten (“to wait, expect”), French guetter (“to watch out for”), Saterland Frisian wachtje (“to wait”), West Frisian wachtsje (“to wait”), North Frisian wachtjen (“to stand, stay put”). More at watch.
In some senses, merged or influenced by Middle English waiten, weiten (“to do good to, lie in wait for, to contrive good or harm on, catch, snare”), from Old Norse veita (“to give help to, assist, grant, cause to happen”), from Proto-Germanic *waitijaną (“to show, guide, advise, direct”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Largely overtook native Middle English biden, from Old English bīdan.