want
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/wɒnt/]
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Senses
1. want (verb) — sense 1
Definition: To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
Example: I want you as a friend, not a foe.
2. want (verb) — sense 2
Definition: To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.: To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
Example: The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
3. want (verb) — sense 3
Definition: To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
Example: Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
4. want (noun) — sense 4
Definition: A desire, wish, longing.
Example: After a search which produced most of the things on our wants list, we went down to picnic on the shore in the sunshine-with a good stretch of shingle behind us over which no triffid could approach unheard.
5. want (noun) — sense 5
Definition: Lack, absence, deficiency.
Example: She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
6. want (noun) — sense 6
Definition: Poverty.
Example: Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
Structure of the word
Roots:- h₁weh₂ (Proto-Indo-European)
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