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{
"term": "await",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "await",
"heSheIt": "awaits"
},
"pastSimple": "awaited",
"pastParticiple": "awaited",
"ingForm": "awaiting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to wait for somebody/something",
"sensetop": "await somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He is in custody **awaiting trial**."
},
{
"text": "Her latest novel is eagerly awaited."
},
{
"text": "The outcome of the appeal is awaited with interest."
},
{
"text": "her long awaited return to professional tennis"
},
{
"text": "Scientists are still awaiting the results of tests."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["anxiously", "breathlessly", "nervously"],
"phrases": ["long awaited"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to be going to happen to somebody",
"sensetop": "await somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A warm welcome awaits all our guests."
},
{
"text": "Who knows what dangers may await us?"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪt/",
"audio": "aw/await/await__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪts/",
"audio": "aw/await/awaits__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪd/",
"audio": "aw/await/awaited__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "aw/await/awaiting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪt/",
"audio": "aw/await/await__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪts/",
"audio": "aw/await/awaits__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪd/",
"audio": "aw/await/awaited__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "aw/await/awaiting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French awaitier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + waitier ‘to wait’."
}