expect🔊

To predict or believe that something will happen

📑 Synonyms: anticipate hope look for

💬 Quotations

“ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp (1918)

To consider obligatory or required.

📑 Synonyms: call for demand

To consider reasonably due.

📑 Synonyms: hope want wish

(of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

(obsolete) To wait for; to await.

📑 Synonyms: await

💬 Quotations

Let's in, and there expect their coming.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1598)

The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.

Walter Scott, The Talisman (1825)

(obsolete) To wait; to stay.

📑 Synonyms: wait

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