Usually means: Desire for something to happen.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wish, wish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wish, wish, wish: Wordnik
  7. wish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wish: Wiktionary
  9. wish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wish: Dictionary.com
  13. wish (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Wish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wish: Rhymezone
  19. wish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wish: Free Dictionary
  22. wish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wish: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. wish: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. wish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wish (fiction), wish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wish: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WISH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. wish: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WISH: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
noun:  An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
noun:  The thing desired or longed for.
noun:  (Sussex) A water meadow.
verb:  (transitive) To desire; to want.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
verb:  (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
verb:  (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
verb:  (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
verb:  (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
noun:  A surname.

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