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waitings

waitings is the plural of waiting.

Meaning of waiting

Noun

waiting (countable and uncountable, plural waitings)

  1. (obsolete) Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding.
  2. The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
    • Waiting for any news in a waiting room. (gerund)
  3. Attendance, service.
    • But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXVI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 227

Phrases with waitings

Questions about waitings

What is waitings the plural of?
Waitings is the plural of waiting.

Words near waitings in the dictionary

  1. waiting upon
  2. waiting upon hand and foot
  3. waiting-room
  4. waiting-rooms
  5. waitingly
  6. waitings
  7. waitlist
  8. waitlisted
  9. waitlister
  10. waitlisters
  11. waitlisting

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