"expecting" meaning in English

See expecting in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-expecting.wav
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} expecting (not comparable)
  1. Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Pregnancy Synonyms: pregnant, enceinte, in a delicate situation, in the family way Translations (in expectation of giving birth; pregnant): nyem (Akan), in verwachting (Dutch), odottava (Finnish), raskaana oleva (Finnish), werdende (english: Mutter) (German), erwartend (english: ein Baby / Kind) (German), in anderen Umständen (sein) (German), in gesegneten Umständen (sein) (German), in guter Hoffnung (sein) (German), in Hoffnung (sein) (German), in der Hoffnung (sein) (German), der Hoffnung (english: sein; today often humorous) (German), in Erwartung (english: sein; elevated style) (German), schwanger (english: sein; human) (German), trächtig (english: sein; animal) (German), hapū (Maori), āhua (Maori)
    Sense id: en-expecting-en-adj-fCt0vdwt Disambiguation of Pregnancy: 70 3 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Akan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Maori translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 23 12 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 67 16 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 81 12 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 21 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 74 20 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Akan translations: 70 19 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 73 13 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 70 19 12 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 76 13 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 70 19 12

Noun

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-expecting.wav Forms: expectings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} expecting (plural expectings)
  1. The process by which somebody expects something.
    Sense id: en-expecting-en-noun-D1~HyKnm

Verb

IPA: /ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-expecting.wav
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} expecting
  1. present participle and gerund of expect Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: expect
    Sense id: en-expecting-en-verb-sCiCVqmM

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        {
          "word": "enceinte"
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          "code": "ak",
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          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "nyem"
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          "code": "nl",
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          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "in verwachting"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "odottava"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "raskaana oleva"
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          "code": "de",
          "english": "Mutter",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "werdende"
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          "code": "de",
          "english": "ein Baby / Kind",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "erwartend"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "in anderen Umständen (sein)"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
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          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
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          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
          "word": "hapū"
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          "lang": "Maori",
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      "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
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      "sense": "in expectation of giving birth; pregnant",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.