Dictionary
want
Meaning
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- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- (colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- To be lacking or deficient or absent.
- To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- To lack and be without, to not have (something).
- (obsolete) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
- To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɒnt/
Cognate with Latin
vanus
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