expecting meaning
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- Expecting may refer to:
- "Expecting" (Angel), a 2000 episode of the TV series Angel
- "Expecting", a song from the album White Blood Cells by The White Stripes
- A pregnant female
- NounPLexpectingsSUF-ing
- Verb
- Adjective
- Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
- The expecting mother is enthusiastic about learning child care.
- When is the new couple expecting?
- Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- We were expecting just a handful of people to come to the festival, but then a truckload of revellers started arriving at the festival gates
- I wasn't expecting it to work, but I hit it big when I tried the new approach.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of expecting in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Verb forms
- Participles
- Present participles
- Present participles
- Participles
- Verb forms
- Adjectives
- en expectings
- en expectingly
- en expectingness
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "expecting" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.