Synonyms for expect


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ik-spekt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈspɛkt

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Définition of expect

Origin :
  • 1550s, "wait, defer action," from Latin expectare/exspectare "await, look out for, desire, hope," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + spectare "to look," frequentative of specere "to look at" (see scope (n.1)).
  • Figurative sense of "anticipate, look forward to" developed in Latin, attested in English from c.1600. Used since 1817 as a euphemism for "be pregnant." Related: Expected; expecting.
  • verb believe strongly; anticipate
  • verb want, wish
Example sentences :
  • And can you expect the youth of Athens to be wiser than their gods?
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Now tell me just what you expect a woman in my position to do.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • I am, in other words, an investment from which they expect large returns.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Now the folks out in this part of the country have come to expect it from a man like him.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • You will, however, expect me to say something of our latest enterprise.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • He is one of the few foreigners who expect a rational answer.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Can we expect that this will be suddenly and permanently altered?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • We have a just right to expect that our European policy will be the American policy of European courts.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • So expect not any advocateship from me: I will not plead for you; and that's enough.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • He had need to expect some good with you, that has so little good to hope for from you; mind that.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

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