wish
IPA: wˈɪʃ
noun
- A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
- An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
- The thing desired or longed for.
- (Sussex) A water meadow.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To desire; to want.
- (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
- (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
- (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
Examples of "wish" in Sentences
- I wish good luck to you.
- I wish I could be undismayed.
- Immortal life is everyone's wish.
- I don't wish to be seen as obdurate.
- Doug secretly wishes to be as athletic.
- Thanks for the wishes and the promotion.
- Here's wishing the lass the best of luck.
- Do not wish for the benevolence of others.
- The teacher wishes to expropriate everybody.
- The adviser was displeased with the king's wishes.
- On the other hand, if we wish to express a _desire_ or _wish_, a
- "I wish -- I _wish_," he said, "that you would let me take you home."
- I really can't stand the skinny thing and I just wish wish *wish* you'd get your old look back.
- I will have his taste, I will have his smell, and he will have mine while you just dream, dream, and wish, and wish
- I hate endings, but endings, are just new beginnings, right? right? as you wish, my love, as you wish~ old starlight - new starbright
- "I wish -- I _wish_ I could only show you how I love you -- how grateful I am for all your goodness; but you will never, never know."
- 'I wish I could hear what he's saying,' thought the little maiden, 'or most of all, I _wish_ he'd go and that other man too -- oh, he's going, but Mr. Redding is asking for something else now!
- “I thought that you might possibly wish me to get in touch with you, if only to give you a few details … Yes … Yes … When you wish … I will come to the Rue de Varenne then an hour from now … ”
- "I didn't mean for to wake you; but I wish -- I _wish_ I hadn't boned them coppers off Jim; it makes me feel so bad when I think as the King saw me;" and Wikkey buried his face in the kind arm which encircled him, in uncontrollable grief.
- And after she had been here she wrote to her father in Cracow, where he is at manoeuvres, saying that if he would like to grant her her chief wish, then, when he came back to Vienna, he was to take me with him to K-- M--; this was really the _greatest wish_ she had ever had in her life!