expectation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=pec=ta=tion
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 6 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

expectation, n. [L. expectio. exspectio: cf. F. expectation.].

•  The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.  Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]

  "My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is expected or looked for.  [1913 Webster]

  "Why our great expectation should be called
  The seed of woman."  [1913 Webster]
•  The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.  [1913 Webster]

  "His magnificent expectations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best match in Europe."  [1913 Webster]

  "By all men's eyes a youth of expectation."  [1913 Webster]
•  The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.  [1913 Webster]
•  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.  [1913 Webster]

Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

expectation, n.
1 the act or an instance of expecting or looking forward.
2 something expected or hoped for.
3 (foll. by of) the probability of an event.
4 (in pl.) one's prospects of inheritance.

Etymology

L expectatio (as EXPECT)

THESAURUS

expectation

aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, apprehension, apprehensiveness, aptitude, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, awelessness, belief, by-and-by, calmness, chance, cheerful expectation, composure, confidence, conjecture, conviction, cool, coolness, course ahead, crystal ball, demand, dependence, design, desire, determinism, distant future, doomed hope, dueness, entitledness, entitlement, eventuality, expectancy, fair expectation, fair prospect, faith, favorable prospect, fervent hope, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, good chance, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, guess, hereafter, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, inexcitability, insistence, intention, justice, justifiable expectation, liability, likelihood, likeliness, meritedness, motive, near future, nodding acceptance, nonamazedness, nonamazement, nonastonishment, nonmarveling, nonwonder, nonwondering, notion, odds, offing, outlook, posteriority, prayerful hope, prediction, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, project, promise, prophecy, prospect, prospects, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, reliance, requirement, sanguine expectation, security, supposition, surmise, suspense, tendency, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, trust, unamazedness, unamazement, unastonishment, unimpressibleness, unsurprise, unsurprisedness, verisimilitude, want, watchfulness, well-grounded hope, wish, wonderlessness

ROGET THESAURUS

expectation

Expectation

N expectation, expectance, expectancy, anticipation, reckoning, calculation, foresight, contemplation, prospection, lookout, prospect, perspective, horizon, vista, destiny, suspense, waiting, abeyance, curiosity, anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation, torment of Tantalus, hope, trust, auspices, assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance, expectant, expecting, in expectation, on the watch, open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation, agape, gaping, all agog, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation, aux aguets, ready, curious, looking forward to, expected, long expected, foreseen, in prospect, prospective, in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner, impending, on the watch, with breathless expectation, with bated breath, with rapt anticipation, arrectis auribus, we shall see, nous verrons, expectation whirls me round, the light at the end of the tunnel.