{
    "term": "await",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "await",
            "heSheIt": "awaits"
        },
        "pastSimple": "awaited",
        "pastParticiple": "awaited",
        "ingForm": "awaiting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to wait for somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "await somebody/something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He is in custody **awaiting trial**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her latest novel is eagerly awaited."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The outcome of the appeal is awaited with interest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her long awaited return to professional tennis"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scientists are still awaiting the results of tests."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["anxiously", "breathlessly", "nervously"],
                "phrases": ["long awaited"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be going to happen to somebody",
            "sensetop": "await somebody",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A warm welcome awaits all our guests."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Who knows what dangers may await us?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪt/",
                "audio": "aw/await/await__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪts/",
                "audio": "aw/await/awaits__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "aw/await/awaited__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "aw/await/awaiting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪt/",
                "audio": "aw/await/await__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪts/",
                "audio": "aw/await/awaits__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "aw/await/awaited__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈweɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "aw/await/awaiting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French awaitier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + waitier ‘to wait’."
}