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Definition for: want

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English

Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
quite brought woman #232: want home whose words

Pronunciation

  • ( UK ) AHD: /wônt/ , IPA: /wɒnt/ , SAMPA: /wQnt/
  • ( US ) AHD: /wônt/ , IPA: /wɑnt/ , SAMPA: /wAnt/
    • Rhymes: -ɒnt

Etymology

Middle English from Old Norse vanta

Transitive Verb

to want ( third-person singular simple present wants , present participle wanting , simple past wanted , past participle wanted )

Infinitive
to want

Third person singular
wants

Simple past
wanted

Past participle
wanted

Present participle
wanting

  1. To like to have; to wish for or desire something.
    What do you want to eat?

Translations

like to have

  • Afrikaans: wil
  • Albanian: do
  • Catalan: voler
  • Chinese: 要, 想要, 缺乏
  • Croatian: htjeti
  • Czech: chtít
  • Danish: ville
  • Dutch: willen
  • Esperanto: voli
  • Fijian: vinakata
  • Filipino: magustohan
  • Finnish: tahtoa, haluta
  • French: vouloir
  • German: wollen
  • Greek, Modern: θέλω
  • Hungarian: akar
  • Ido: dezirar, volar (want to)
  • Indonesian: mau, hendak, menginginkan
  • Italian: volere
  • Japanese: 欲しい (ほしい), 望む (のぞむ)
  • Kurdish: xwestin, viyan
  • Latin: carere (lack/need), velle (wish)
  • Latvian: gribēt, vēlēties
  • Norwegian: ville
  • Old English: willan
  • Persian: خواستَن (xāstæn)
  • Piedmontese: vorej
  • Polish: chcieć
  • Portuguese: querer
  • Slovene: hoteti
  • Spanish: querer
  • Telugu: కోరుకొను (korukonu), వాంఛించు (vamchinchu)
  • Turkish: istemek

Noun

want (uncountable and countable, plural: wants )

  1. Lack (of), absence of.
    And well are worth the want that you have wanted.--Shakespeare, King Lear

Translations

  • Telugu: వాంఛ (vamcha), కోరిక (korika)

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

Homophones

Noun

want f (Plural: wanten, diminutive: wantje)

  1. mitten

Conjunction

want

  1. for

See also

omdat, aangezien

Old High German

Noun

want f

  1. wall

Other Translations for "want"

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