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anticipation

[ an-tis-uh-pey-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of anticipating or the state of being anticipated.
  2. realization in advance; foretaste.
  3. expectation or hope.
  4. previous notion; slight previous impression.
  5. intuition, foreknowledge, or prescience.
  6. Law. a premature withdrawal or assignment of money from a trust estate.
  7. Music. a tone introduced in advance of its harmony so that it sounds against the preceding chord.


anticipation

/ æˌɪɪˈɪʃə /

noun

  1. the act of anticipating; expectation, premonition, or foresight
  2. the act of taking or dealing with funds before they are legally available or due
  3. music an unstressed, usually short note introduced before a downbeat and harmonically related to the chord immediately following it Compare suspension
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDza·پi·貹tDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of anticipation1

First recorded in 1540–50; from Middle French, from Latin Գپپō-, stem of Գپپō “innate notion, preconception,” from Գپ(ܲ) “taken before, anticipated” (past participle of Գپ “to take before”; anticipate ) + -ion
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But there's a moment just before the curtain rises, when the stage is still, the lights dim, and there's a silence that crackles with a mixture of tension and anticipation.

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The Dodgers place Shohei Ohtani on the paternity list before their weekend series against the Texas Rangers in anticipation of the birth of his first child.

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There was plenty of anticipation for the last race of the meet, which also included Olympic 200m freestyle silver medallist Matt Richards.

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Ohtani has been on the paternity list since Friday, and stayed back in Los Angeles during the Dodgers’ trip to Texas to face the Rangers this weekend in anticipation of the birth.

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The Dodgers place Shohei Ohtani on the paternity list before their weekend series against the Texas Rangers in anticipation of his first child be born.

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