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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. want: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. want: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. want: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. want: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. WANT, Want, wa'n't, want: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. want: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Want: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. want: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. want: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. want: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Wa'n't, want: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. want (n.), want (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. want: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. want: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. want: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. W.A.N.T, Want (disambiguation), Want: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. want: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Wa'n't, Want: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. wa'n't, want: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. want: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. Wa'n't, want: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. want: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. WANT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  24. want: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  25. want: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. want: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. want: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. want: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. Wa'n't, want: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. want: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. want: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  2. want: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. want: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. want: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. WANT: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Want: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  3. want: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
  4. WANT: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  5. WANT: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  6. want: Idioms [home, info]

Quick definitions (want)

noun:  anything that is necessary but lacking ("I tried to supply his wants")
noun:  a state of extreme poverty
noun:  a specific feeling of desire
noun:  the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable ("For want of a nail the shoe was lost")
verb:  be without, lack; be deficient in ("Want courtesy")
verb:  wish or demand the presence of ("I want you here at noon!")
verb:  have need of ("This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner")
verb:  hunt or look for; want for a particular reason ("Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI")
verb:  feel or have a desire for; want strongly ("I want to go home now")
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #44937)

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Phrases that include want:   don't want to know, dont want to know, want bread buttered on both sides, waste not want not, freedom from want, more...

Words similar to want:   deficiency, deprivation, desire, need, lack, privation, require, wanted, wanting, wish, wishing, ache, destitution, penury, poverty, shortage, more...


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