English Explanatory Dictionary

expectation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
  2. That which is expected or looked for.
  3. An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view.
  4. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
  5. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
  6. The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
  7. The arithmetic mean.
  8. The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Pronunciation

/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ en-us-expectation.ogg /ˌek.spekˈtæɪ.ʃən/

Word forms

expectation expectations expection

Etymology

From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.

Related words

expect expectant expected Wikipedia:Expected value

Derived words

concession-counter-expectation contraexpectation expectational expectations game expectations hypothesis Expectation Sunday Expectation Week inexpectation misexpectation nonexpectation overexpectation preexpectation racism of low expectations sexpectation soft bigotry of low expectations unexpectation

Translations

Armenian: ակնկալիք Bulgarian: надежда Bulgarian: вероятност Catalan: expectativa Chinese Mandarin: 期望 Chinese Mandarin: 期待 Czech: očekávání Dutch: verwachting Estonian: ootus Finnish: odotus French: attente German: Erwartung Greek: προσδοκία Hindi: आकांक्षा Indonesian: harapan Italian: attese Italian: aspettativa Japanese: 希望 Japanese: 期待 Japanese: 心待ち Malay: jangkaan Māori: kawatau Polish: oczekiwanie Portuguese: expectativa Romanian: expectativă Romanian: anticipație Romanian: așteptat Russian: ожида́ние Russian: наде́жда Russian: ча́яние Scottish Gaelic: fiughair Scottish Gaelic: dùil Spanish: expectativa Swahili: tarajio Swedish: förväntning Swedish: förväntan Ukrainian: наді́я
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