AWAITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awaited mean? 

• AWAITED (adjective)
  The adjective AWAITED has 1 sense:

1. expected hopefully

  Familiarity information: AWAITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWAITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expected hopefully

Synonyms:

anticipated; awaited; hoped-for

Similar:

expected (considered likely or probable to happen or arrive)

 Context examples 

If you are single, this is the very best aspect you could have to meet someone new who you will want to know better—this could be the long-awaited moment.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The most recent and most awaited was the epidemiological study Interphone which was partly financed by the Commission.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

I felt, as I looked upon that supple figure, alive with nervous energy, that it was indeed a strenuous day that awaited us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And I was indeed thankful, for I had by this time learned enough to know, with all our canvas spread, what disaster in such event awaited us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Time during which some action is awaited; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time; the state of being slower or later.

(Delay, NCI Thesaurus)

At last in strode the captain, slammed the door behind him, without looking to the right or left, and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Sir Nigel Loring, at last! By my soul we have awaited you this month past. Right welcome, Sir Nigel! You have had my letter?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He glanced at a telegram which awaited him and threw it into the grate.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch awaited us upon the table.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Various duties awaited me on my arrival.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)