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