would

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/wəd/]

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1. would (verb) — sense 1

Definition: Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.: Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.

Example: On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.

2. would (verb) — sense 2

Definition: Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.: Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)

Example: When we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.

3. would (verb) — sense 3

Definition: Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.: Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.

Example: I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.

4. would (noun) — sense 4

Definition: Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

Example: When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.

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