The difference between Await and Expect

When used as verbs, await means to wait for, whereas expect means to look for (mentally).


Await is also noun with the meaning: a waiting for.

check bellow for the other definitions of Await and Expect

  1. Await as a verb (transitive, formal):

    To wait for.

    Examples:

    "I await your reply to my letter."

  2. Await as a verb (transitive):

    To expect.

  3. Await as a verb (transitive):

    To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.

    Examples:

    "Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell."

  4. Await as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.

  5. Await as a verb (intransitive):

    To watch, observe.

  6. Await as a verb (intransitive):

    To wait; to stay in waiting.

  1. Await as a noun (obsolete):

    A waiting for; ambush.

  2. Await as a noun (obsolete):

    Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.

  1. Expect as a verb:

    To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).

    Examples:

    "I expect to receive wages.  I expect that the troops will be defeated."

  2. Expect as a verb:

    To consider obligatory or required.

  3. Expect as a verb:

    To consider reasonably due.

    Examples:

    "You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week."

  4. Expect as a verb (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple):

    To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

  5. Expect as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To wait for; to await.

  6. Expect as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To wait; to stay.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Sandys"