Want
- Proper noun. A personification of want.
- Verb. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something). (defdate, from 18th c.) .
- Verb. (intransitive, now) To be lacking, not to exist. (defdate, from 13th c.) .
- Verb. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something). (defdate, from 13th c.) .
- Verb. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something). (defdate, from 15th c.) .
- Noun. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- Noun. (countable, often) Lack, absence.
- Noun. (uncountable) Poverty.
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