expect

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈspɛkt/

The English word “expect” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

To predict or believe that something will happen
To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
To wait for; to await.
To wait; to stay.

Etymology

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

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