Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Waiting in expectation; looking for 2. (a.) waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment. 3. (n.) One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

Multi-Version Concordance Expectant (1 Occurrence) Jeremiah 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together: a great company shall they return here. (See NIV)