Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

awaiter en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English awaytur; equivalent to await + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who awaits.
    • these awaiters of articulate acknowledgment 1916, Edith Wharton, “The Long Wards”, in The Book of the Homeless:
  2. An object that waits for the completion of an asynchronous task.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
awaiters Number=Plur lexicographic