want

Verb

1. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
2. (broadly, transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
3. (transitive) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
4. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
5. (colloquial, second-person, usually) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
6. (colloquial, transitive) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
7. (archaic, transitive) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
8. (dated, intransitive) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
9. (dated, intransitive) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
10. (archaic, transitive) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
11. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
12. To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.

Noun

1. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
2. (countable) Lack, absence, deficiency.
3. (uncountable) Poverty.
4. (countable, uncountable) Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
5. (UK, countable, uncountable) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

Noun

A mole (Talpa europea).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɒnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wanten

Cognate with Middle High German: wan

Cognate with Middle Dutch: wan

Cognate with Old English: wana

Cognate with Latin: vanus

Inherited from Middle English: wont

Inherited from Old English: wand

In summary

From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.

Synonyms

desire

wish

need

like

poverty

love

❤️

deficiency

lack

wish for

require

shortage

will

absence

destitution

necessity

long for

hope

demand

scarcity

requirement

indigence

request

crave

shortcoming

defect

covet

privation

dearth

anxious to

intend

ask for

be willing to

penury

look for

willing

think

🤔

neediness

feel like

flaw

aspire

seek

🔍

deprivation

ask

gap

expect

ambition

aspiration

shortness

hope for

hunger

Translations

vouloir

désirer

volere

querer

querer

wollen

desear

willen

voler

istemek

θέλω

verlangen

souhaiter

desiderare

desejar

Sentences

What do you want me to say ?

Why would I want to do that ?

We dont want him !

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

" I can clean up those glasses in the window , if you want ," said the boy .

This win influenced girls to want to play soccer on a team .