await in English: To wait for something or someone. It is a more formal word than wait. (verb)

Translation

To wait for something or someone. It is a more formal word than wait.

Word origin

From Old North French awaitier, meaning to watch for, built on the same root as wait.

Verb typeregular (await, awaits, awaited)

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A formal way to say we are waiting for your answer, common in letters.

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Here "awaits" means is ready and waiting for.

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Note there is no "for": you await something, but you wait for it.

wait

To stay in one place or do nothing until something happens or someone comes.

hope

To want something to happen and feel that it might.

expect

To think that something will happen or that someone will come.

arrive

To get to a place at the end of a journey.

answer

To say or write something back when someone asks you a question.

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