expect

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of: expecting a telephone call; expects rain on Sunday.
2. v. To consider likely or certain: expect to see them soon. See Usage Note at anticipate.
3. v. To consider reasonable or due: We expect an apology.
4. v. To consider obligatory; require: The school expects its pupils to be on time.
5. v. Informal To presume; suppose.
6. v. To look forward to the birth of one's child. Used in progressive tenses: His sister is expecting in May.
7. v. To be pregnant. Used in progressive tenses: My wife is expecting again.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To look for; wait for; await.
2. To look for with anticipation; believe in the occurrence or the coming of; await as likely to happen or to appear.
3. To reckon upon, as something to be done, granted, or yielded; desire with confidence or assurance: as, to expect obedience or aid; I shall expect to find that job finished by Saturday; you are expected to be quiet.
4. To count upon in relation to something; trust or rely upon to do or act in some specified way; require or call upon expectantly: as, I expect you to obey, or to perform a task.
5. To suppose; reckon; conclude: applied to things past or present as well as to things future: as, I expect he went to town yesterday. [This use, though naturally derivable from sense 3, is probably in some instances due to confusion with suspect: as, I rather expect he doesn't intend to come.] Synonyms To anticipate, look forward to, calculate upon, rely upon. “Hope, Expect. Both express the anticipation of something future; when the anticipation is welcome, we hope; when it is less or more certain, we expect.” (Angus, Handbook of the Eng. Tongue, p. 378.) Expect, Suppose. Expect properly refers to the future; suppose may refer to the present, the past, or the future. The two words do not differ materially in the degree of certainty felt.
6. To wait; stay.
7. n. Expectation.

Wiktionary

1. v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
2. v. To consider obligatory or required.
3. v. To consider reasonably due.
4. v. to be pregnant, to consider a baby due
5. v. obsolete To wait for; to await.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To wait for; to await.
2. v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
3. v. obsolete To wait; to stay.
4. n. obsolete Expectation.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be pregnant with
2. v. regard something as probable or likely
3. v. consider reasonable or due
4. v. look forward to the birth of a child
5. v. look forward to the probable occurrence of
6. v. consider obligatory; request and expect