Synonym: defer, delay, linger, postpone, procrastinate, put off, shelve, stay, table, tarry. Similar words: await, wait on, wait for, awaiting, waist, trait, portrait. Meaning: [weɪt] 
n. 1. time during which some action is awaited 2. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something). v. 1. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something 2. wait before acting 3. look forward to the probable occurrence of 4. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
n. 1. time during which some action is awaited 2. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something). v. 1. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something 2. wait before acting 3. look forward to the probable occurrence of 4. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. 
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(1) Time and tide wait for no man. 
(2) One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.
(3) Good things come to those who wait.
(4) All things come to those who wait.
(5) To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
(6) Weak men wait for opportunity, but the strong men make it.
(7) Sail while the wind blows; wind and tide wait for no man.
(8) I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got down to work.
(9) Opportunities do not wait.
(10) I have but one lamp wait which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
(11) All we can do now is wait and hope.
(12) We hadn't bargained on such a long wait.
(13) Let's wait till the rain stops.
(14) Wait until the paint has completely dried.
(15) To watch the sunrise must wait till dawn.
(16) "Please wait for a minute, "she called down.
(17) Wait here until I get back.
(18) He doesn't have the patience to wait.
(19) Could you wait for me, please?
(20) You were explicitly instructed to wait here.
(21) You must wait for five more days.
(22) Please wait for me till I come back.
(23) 'Shall I wait?' 'No, don't bother'.
(24) We had a long wait for the train. Sentencedict.com
(25) Will you wait at the door?
(26) I can hardly wait until this summer.
(27) The future belongs to him who knows how to wait.
(28) All things will come round to him who will but wait.
(29) I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready.
(30) Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.