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anticipation

Syllabification: (an·tic·i·pa·tion)

Definition of anticipation

the action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction:her eyes sparkled with anticipation
Music the introduction in a composition of part of a chord that is about to follow in full.

Phrases

in anticipation: with the probability or expectation of something happening:they manned the telephones in anticipation of a flood of calls

late Middle English: from Latin anticipatio(n-), from the verb anticipare (see anticipate)

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