EXPECT meaning: Anticipate something will likely happen

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word expect:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

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Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

expect: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
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Religion (1 matching dictionary)

EXPECT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See expectable as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
▸ verb:  To consider obligatory or required.
▸ verb:  To consider reasonably due.
▸ verb:  (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

Similar:

anticipate, ask, require, look, wait, await, carry, gestate, bear, want, more...

Opposite:

disregard, overlook, ignore, discount, neglect

Types:

anticipate, foresee, predict, forecast, presage, forewarn, foreshadow, forebode, more...

Phrases:

i expect, expect the unexpected, Expect No Mercy, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Everything You've Come to Expect, more...

Colors:

silver, gold, white, lavender, mint green, peach, cream, sky blue, lilac, coral

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