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long-awaited

long-awaited adjective: having been awaited for a long time.

Adjective

long-awaited (comparative more long-awaited, superlative most long-awaited)

  1. having been awaited for a long time
    • The recent announcement of £395 million of Scottish and UK Government funding for the 'Borderlands' growth deal [...] has brought with it a pledge of £10 million to fund the long-awaited feasibility study into extending the Borders Railway through to Carlisle.2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 42

Forms of long-awaited

comparativemore long-awaited
superlativemost long-awaited

Questions about long-awaited

What does long-awaited mean?
Long-awaited means having been awaited for a long time.
What part of speech is long-awaited?
Long-awaited is an adjective.

Words near long-awaited in the dictionary

  1. long-ago
  2. long-arm statute
  3. long-arm statutes
  4. long-armed squid
  5. long-armed squids
  6. long-awaited
  7. long-barrelled
  8. long-beaked bald rush
  9. long-billed
  10. long-billed corella
  11. long-billed crow

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