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Definition want

Etymology

From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanat?n? (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?weh?- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. [from 18th c.]
  2. (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
  3. (transitive) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). [from 15th c.]
  4. (transitive) To lack and be without, to not have (something). [from 13th c.]
  5. (transitive, by extension, possibly obsolete) To lack and (be able to) do without.
  6. (transitive) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
  7. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
  8. (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent. [from 13th c.]
  9. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
  10. (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).

Noun

want (countable and uncountable, plural wants)

  1. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
  2. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
  3. (uncountable) Poverty.
  4. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
  5. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

Results 491 Words with the letters WANT

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ATWAIN 10
ATWEEN 10
TAWING 12
TAWNEY 12
THRAWN 12
TWAINS 10
TWANGS 12
TWANGY 14
TWANKY 16
WALNUT 12
WANTED 11
WANTER 10
WANTON 11
5 letter words with the letters WANT 
TAWNY 11
TWANG 11
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WANT 8
3 letter words with the letters WANT 
ANT 4
AWN 7
NAW 7
TAN 4
TAW 6
TWA 6
WAN 7
WAT 6
2 letter words with the letters WANT 
AN 3
AT 2
AW 5
NA 3
TA 2

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