expectant
/ɪkˈspɛktənt/ noun C2- A person who expects or awaits something.
Plural expectants
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And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
His brother and I sat expectant.
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