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WAIT
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
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Big
1
pts
Super Big
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pts
WAIT is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.
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verb
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intransitiveTo delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
- Wait here until your car arrives.
- I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you..
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USintransitivestativeTo wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- She used to wait in this joint.
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archaictransitiveTo delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
- to wait one’s turn
- obsoletetransitiveTo attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
- obsoleteTo attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
- colloquialobsoleteTo defer or postpone (especially a meal).
- obsoleteTo watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
- intransitiveTo remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
noun
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A delay.
- I had a very long wait at the airport security check.
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An ambush.
- They lay in wait for the patrol.
- abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of wait state.
- obsoleteOne who watches; a watchman.
- UKobsoleteHautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
- UKMusicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen.
interjection
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informalTells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment, often to allow clarification.
- - And so I went upstairs— - Wait. Your house has two floors?