await

Other forms of await

past tense

awaited·

present participle

awaiting·

third person

awaits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about await

What does await mean?

await means "look forward to the probable occurrence of".

How many syllables are in await?

await has 2 syllables: a-wait. The stress falls on "wait". In IPA it is /əˈweɪt/.

What is another word for await?

Close synonyms include expect, look, wait. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is await a common word?

await is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with await?

14 words rhyme with await. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.