0 past simple and past participle of wait
1 to allow time to go by, especially while staying in one place without doing very much, until someone comes, until something that you are expecting happens or until you can do something:
We can buy our duty-free while we're waiting at the airport.
He had waited without moving, standing stock-still on the bank, peering into the water, hoping for another glimpse, a ripple in the water's surface even.
One man was unemployed while he waited for a hernia operation.
The couple now waited two and a half years before trying again.
