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What does wait mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word wait? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
  2. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
  3. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
  4. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
  5. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
  6. (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
  7. (intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.
Noun
  1. A delay.
  2. An ambush.
  3. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
  4. (plural) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
  5. (plural) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
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