want

IPA: wˈɑnt

(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.

(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.

Examples of "want" in Sentences

The resources are wanting.
He wanted to be a glazier.
He wanted to be a steward.
He wanted to be a mortician.
The WTO wants to procure it but the Order wants to destroy it.
We want to entice the reader to want to read the entire article.
The two profess that they want the kind of wedding the other one wants.
They who want something to be lastingly reverted, need to discuss first.
The salesclerk wants to know if you want to purchase the protection plan.
Where Romney needs to reaffirm the first debate, Obama wants voters to forget it.