To wait until the specified event occurs. / To await the arrival of.

present participle of wait

(obsolete) Watching. / The act of staying or remaining in expectation. / Attendance, service.

To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. / (colloquial) To wait for (a person).

(transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)

A delay. / An ambush. / (computing) Short for wait state. / (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman. / (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.

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

simple past tense and past participle of wait

plural of wait

(Britain) A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially around Christmas.