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want
Verb
want (third-person singular simple present wants, present participle wanting, simple past and past participle wanted)
- (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something). [from 18th c.]
- What do you want to eat?
- I want you to leave.
- I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
- I want to be an astronaut when Im older
- I dont want him to marry Gloria, I want him to marry me!
- What do you want from me?
- Do you want anything from the shops?
- (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist. [from 13th c.]
- There was something wanting in the play.
- (transitive) To lack, not to have (something). [from 13th c.]
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
- he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth [...] wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
- (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something). [from 15th c.]
- That chair wants fixing.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacobs Room Chapter 2
- The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacobs window, and it creakedâcreaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.
Noun
Wikipedia want (countable and uncountable; plural wants)
- (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
- circa 1591, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2, act 4, sc. 8:
- [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
- For Want of a Nail:
- For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
- For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
- For want of a horse the rider was lost.
- For want of a rider the battle was lost.
- For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
- And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
- (uncountable) Poverty.
Conjunction
want
- for, because
- Hij komt niet, want hij is ziek. â He is not coming, because he is sick. (Note: The order is SVO after want.)
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