wait up
wait up verb: to stay awake waiting for somebody to return.
Verb
wait up (third-person singular simple present waits up, present participle waiting up, simple past and past participle waited up)
- To stay awake waiting for somebody to return.
- Anyway, Dad waited up for them. It must have been about midnight when they came in.1980, Joe Garner, Never Fly Over an Eagle's Nest, page 66
- It is one a.m. on a Sunday morning and I'm waiting up for my teenage son, who was supposed to be home at midnight.2005, Kathryn E. Livingston, All About Motherhood, page 55
- To wait.
- Hey, wait up! I forgot my umbrella.
- We have to wait up for Steve.
wait up meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
wait up in Urdu
- سونا ملتوی کرنا
wait up in Malayalam
- stay awake, stay up
- ഉറങ്ങാതെ നോക്കിയിരിക്കുക, ഉറക്കമിളച്ചു കാത്തിരിക്കുക, ഉണർന്നിരിക്കുക, ഉറങ്ങാതിരിക്കുക, ഉറക്കമിളയ്ക്കുക, നിദ്രാരഹിതനായിരിക്കുക
Forms of wait up
| third-person singular present | waits up |
|---|---|
| present participle | waiting up |
| past participle | waited up |
| past | waited up |
Questions about wait up
- What does wait up mean?
- Wait up means to stay awake waiting for somebody to return.
- What is wait up in Urdu?
- Wait up in Urdu is سونا ملتوی کرنا. See Wait up meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is wait up?
- Wait up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of wait up?
- The past tense of wait up is waited up.
Words near wait up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wait up (page history and authors); wait up (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wait up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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