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expectant

[ ik-spek-tuhnt ]

adjective

  1. an excited, expectant audience.

  2. pregnant; expecting:

    an expectant mother.

  3. characterized by expectations:

    an expectant attitude.

  4. in expectation; expected; prospective:

    an expectant fortune.



noun

  1. a person who expects or who waits in expectation.

expectant

/ 瑟办藞蝉辫蓻办迟蓹苍迟 /

adjective

  1. expecting, anticipating, or hopeful

    an expectant glance

  2. having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity
  3. pregnant

    an expectant mother

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a person who expects something
  2. obsolete.
    a candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 别虫藞辫别肠迟补苍迟濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟路濒测 adverb
  • 丑补濒蹿顎-别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟 adjective
  • half顎-别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟路濒测 adverb
  • 苍辞苍顎卐虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟 adjective
  • non顎叡鸪媛繁璞鸪Τ兕僡苍迟路濒测 adverb
  • 辞顎卾别谤路别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟 adjective
  • o顎卾er路别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟路濒测 adverb
  • 辫谤别顎卐虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟 noun
  • 辩耻补顎却颈-别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟 adjective
  • qua顎卻i-别虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟路濒测 adverb
  • 耻苍顎卐虫路辫别肠迟顎僡苍迟 adjective
  • un顎叡鸪媛繁璞鸪Τ兕僡苍迟路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of expectant1

1350鈥1400; Middle English < Latin expectant- (stem of 别虫辫别肠迟腻苍蝉 ), present participle of 别虫辫别肠迟腻谤别 to expect; -ant
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Kulumbegashvili plunges us into a delivery room as an expectant mother struggles to give birth, the filmmaker鈥檚 camera shielding us from nothing as the hospital staff desperately try to extract the child.

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鈥淚t was a great birthday,鈥 said Hatch-Miller, 43, who often advises expectant friends to take their babies into the greater world sooner than later.

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New and expectant fathers should have the same protections from redundancy as mothers, a Labour MP has said.

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"It's a miracle, and speaking in front of this expectant audience is very hard for us," Molayemi said in his acceptance speech.

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Couples are given specialist advice at their GP; at pregnancy classes, information is shared with expectant mothers.

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