Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. 2. (n.) Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. 3. (n.) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception. 4. (n.) The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

Multi-Version Concordance Anticipation (2 Occurrences) Acts 23:21 I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you." (WEY) Ephesians 1:14 that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling of His glory. (WEY)