Abide vs Await - What's the difference?
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*:Abide you here with the asse.
(label) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left.
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*:Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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*:Let the damsel abide with us a few days.
(label) To endure; to remain; to last.
*1998 , Narrator ((Sam Elliot)), The Big Lebowski (film):
*:"The Dude abides ."
(label) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
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*:Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot
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*:Bonds and afflictions abide me.
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(label) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
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(label) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
*William Shakespeare, Richard II
*:To abide thy kingly doom.
(label) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
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*:She could not abide Master Shallow.
(label) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
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(formal) To wait for.
* Milton
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
To expect.
To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
* Milton
To wait on, serve or attend.
To watch, observe.
To wait (on or upon).
To wait; to stay in waiting.
(label) A waiting for; ambush.
(label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
*, Book VII:
*:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
*:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
In intransitive terms the difference between abide and await
is that abide is to endure; to remain; to last while await is to wait; to stay in waiting.In transitive terms the difference between abide and await
is that abide is to pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for while await is to wait on, serve or attend.As verbs the difference between abide and await
is that abide is to wait in expectation while await is to wait for.As a noun await is
a waiting for; ambush.abide
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Usage notes
* (bear patiently) Used in the negative form can't abide is used to indicate strong dislike.See also
* dwell * live * reside * stayawait
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(en verb)- Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
- Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
- O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.