29 English Synonyms for WAIT
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Definition: 1. To wait until the specified event occurs.
There are 2 definitions of the word wait for
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Definition: 1. To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
There are 10 definitions of the word wait on
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Definition: 1. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
There are 17 definitions of the word serve
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Definition: 1. Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
There are 4 definitions of the word attend
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Definition: 1. A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
There are 11 definitions of the word escort
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Definition: 1. (idiomatic, transitive) To choose or accept (a suggestion).
There are 5 definitions of the word go with
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Definition: 1. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
There are 42 definitions of the word stay
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Definition: 1. (transitive, formal) To wait for.
There are 8 definitions of the word await
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Definition: 1. To keep air in one's lungs, pausing noticeably before exhaling after previously inhaling.
There are 2 definitions of the word hold one's breath
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Definition: 1. (transitive) To stand by or near; stand around.
There are 4 definitions of the word bestand
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Definition: 1. To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
There are 10 definitions of the word tend
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Definition: 1. To render, to offer.
There are 5 definitions of the word defer
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Definition: 1. To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
There are 2 definitions of the word postpone
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Definition: 1. To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
There are 9 definitions of the word remain
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Definition: 1. To consider obligatory or required.
There are 6 definitions of the word expect
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Definition: 1. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand. [from mid-12th c.]
There are 11 definitions of the word abide
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Definition: 1. (transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
There are 6 definitions of the word bide
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Definition: 1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To wait, especially for a suitable opportunity.
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Definition: 1. To hold, grasp, or grip.
There are 8 definitions of the word hang on
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Definition: 1. To grasp or grip firmly.
There are 6 definitions of the word hold on
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Definition: 1. (idiomatic) To be patient; to wait.
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Definition: 1. (physiology, dated) To restrain one's urge to urinate.
There are 2 definitions of the word hold one's water
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Definition: 1. (transitive, literally) To hold (something) out; to extend (something) forward.
There are 7 definitions of the word hold out
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Definition: 1. (marching) To march in place, while still in step with the beat.
There are 2 definitions of the word mark time
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