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expectant

 adjective
     
ex‧pec‧tant [usually before noun]
1 hopeful that something good or exciting will happen, or showing this:
a row of expectant faces
2

expectant mother/father

MB a mother or father whose baby will be born soon
—expectantly adverb:
He looked expectantly at Sarah, but she didn't speak.
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