expect

== English == === Etymology === From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛkt/, /ɛkˈspɛkt/ Hyphenation: ex‧pect Rhymes: -ɛkt === Verb === expect (third-person singular simple present expects, present participle expecting, simple past and past participle expected) (ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen Synonyms: anticipate, hope, look for, bargain for To consider obligatory or required. Synonyms: call for, demand 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar: England expects that every man will do his duty. To consider reasonably due. Synonyms: hope, want, wish (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await. Synonyms: await; see also Thesaurus:wait for 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25: The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay. Synonym: wait ==== Usage notes ==== This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “expect”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “expect”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “expect”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === except