Want

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

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