Usually means: Desire or wish for something.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. want: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. want, want: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. want: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. want: Collins English Dictionary
  5. want: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wa'n't, Wan't, Want, wa'n't, wa'nt, wan't, want, want: Wordnik
  7. want: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Want, wa'n't, wan't, want: Wiktionary
  9. want: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. want: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. want: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Wa'n't, want: Dictionary.com
  13. want (n.), want (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. want: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Want (DC band), The Want (New Jersey band), Want (EP), Want (Natalie Imbruglia song), Want (Rufus Wainwright album), Want: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wa'n't, Want: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wa'n't, want: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. want: Rhymezone
  19. Wa'n't, want: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. want: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. WANT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. want: Free Dictionary
  23. want: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Wa'n't, want: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. want: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. want: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. want: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. WANT: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. want: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. want, want: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wan't, want: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
verb:  (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
verb:  (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
verb:  (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
verb:  (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
verb:  (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
verb:  To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
noun:  (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
noun:  (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
noun:  (uncountable) Poverty.
noun:  Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
noun:  (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
noun:  (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
noun:  A personification of want.

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