want

Meaning

1. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
2. To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
3. To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
4. To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
5. (colloquial) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
6. (colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
7. To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
8. To be lacking or deficient or absent.
9. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
10. To lack and be without, to not have (something).
11. (obsolete) 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.

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set one’s heart on

disparity

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unsuitability

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pinch-out

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thinning out

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walk

wish to have

'I wish that...'

modal preverb

non-existence

consent

run after

paucity

omission

speak

go for

please

yen

ache

languish

pine

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demerit

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velleity

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take

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decrease

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lower

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going to

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be going to

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dream

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call

call for

postulate

reclaim

whinge

should be

be about to

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɒnt/

From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), 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-.