expecting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ/, /ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: ex‧pect‧ing

Verb

expecting

1. present participle of expect

Adjective

expecting (not comparable)

1. Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.

   The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning childcare.

   When is the new couple expecting?

Synonyms

• see pregnant

Translations

pregnant

• Dutch: in verwachting
• Finnish: odottava (fi), raskaana oleva
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: hapū, āhua (mi)

Noun

expecting (plural expectings)

1. The process by which somebody expects something.
   • 1998, Merrelyn Emery, Searching: The Theory and Practice of Making Cultural Change:

     In this process participants become immersed in the dynamic interplay of rememberings, communal extraction, imaginings, expectings, etc., and of singular perceptions of each of these separately and as they come together […]

Anagrams

• excepting