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wait for Godot

wait for Godot verb: to wait hopelessly.

Verb

wait for Godot (third-person singular simple present waits for Godot, present participle waiting for Godot, simple past and past participle waited for Godot)

  1. (idiomatic) To wait hopelessly.
    • But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule.2000, Susan Estrich, Sex and Power, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 96
    • We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another ­– doubtless very different – St. Benedict.1984, Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 263

wait for Godot meaning in Bengali

wait for Godot in Bengali

নিরাশভাবে অপেক্ষা করা

Forms of wait for Godot

third-person singular presentwaits for Godot
present participlewaiting for Godot
past participlewaited for Godot
pastwaited for Godot

Origin of wait for Godot

Refers to the surreal comic play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, in which two tramps engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting "Godot", who never arrives.

Questions about wait for Godot

What does wait for Godot mean?
Wait for Godot means to wait hopelessly.
What is wait for Godot in Bengali?
Wait for Godot in Bengali is নিরাশভাবে অপেক্ষা করা. See Wait for Godot meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is wait for Godot?
Wait for Godot is a verb.
What is the past tense of wait for Godot?
The past tense of wait for Godot is waited for Godot.

Words near wait for Godot in the dictionary

  1. wait
  2. wait a minute
  3. wait and see
  4. wait around
  5. wait for
  6. wait for Godot
  7. wait for it
  8. wait for the ball to drop
  9. wait for the cat to jump
  10. wait for the dust to settle
  11. wait for the other shoe to drop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wait for Godot (page history and authors); wait for Godot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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