want
IPA: wˈɑnt
noun
- (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
- (uncountable) Poverty.
- Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
- A personification of want.
verb
- (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
- (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
- (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
- (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
- (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
- To desire a romantic, especially sexual, relationship with someone; to lust for.
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Examples of "want" in Sentences
- I want Atlantis to *want* something, to be about something, to have something to say to me.
- May 27, 2008 at 11:39 am dis mai 3rd day ov gibben up skwrlz……gotta hab wun…..want want want…….
- This individual would not want any interaction, as he did not want interaction on a one-to-one basis.
- They can then consult their own wishes in the matter, they can have intercourse whenever they want and _the way they want_.
- Really know what you want as a home, _want it_, and you can work out any scheme, provided you have intelligence, patience and perseverance.
- That's what I'd sign up for, he said, explaining he'd want to defend the right to learn and think what you want as Canadians have now taken as a birthright.
- And the irony for me is, now that he actually does something that makes me want to boycott his films, he goes and puts out a movie I actually * want* to see this summer.
- In the world I want to see, not only would women have complete freedom to choose abortion, those who *want* to carry to term would be supported–in meaningful ways, ie financial support, affordable childcare, etc.
- Oh, you mean he doesn't ***really*** want to follow God's Law, but wants to do what all fundagelicals do, and pretend that God's Law is what ever bits of the Bible they *want* to follow, while insisting Jesus, in obviously one of his "unpublished" works, overturned the bits they don't?
- Each individual perceived some want in his neighbor, and forthwith proceeded to supply this want, _charging just as much for the thing supplied as the desire for the article or his need of it would force the person supplied to pay; without reference to the equitable price, estimated with respect to the labor bestowed in supplying the want_.
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