Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word want. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in want.
Definitions and meaning of want
want
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishwanten(“to lack”), from Old Norsevanta(“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic*wanatōną(“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô(“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European*h₁weh₂-(“empty”). Cognate with Middle High Germanwan(“not full, empty”), Middle Dutchwan(“empty, poor”), Old Englishwana(“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latinvanus(“empty”). See wan, wan-.
(New Zealand) enPR: wŏnt, wŭnt, IPA(key): /wɔnt/, (nonstandard)/wɐnt/
(Indian English) IPA(key): /wɔnt/
Rhymes: -ɒnt, -ʌnt
Homophone: wont(one pronunciation)
Verb
want (third-person singular simple presentwants, present participlewanting, simple past and past participlewanted)
(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. [from 18th c.]
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
I want to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!
(by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
(transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
Danish police want him for embezzlement.
(intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
2019 May 5, "The Last of the Starks", Game of Thrones season 8 episode 4 (written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss):
TYRION: You don't want it?
BRAN: I don't really want anymore.
(colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
(transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). [from 15th c.]
(transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
(intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent. [from 13th c.]
(intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
(transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something). [from 13th c.]
(transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
1789 Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying; But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning, And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning, Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-"By God, I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
1880 Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped
"Are ye sharp-set?" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. "Ye can eat that drop parritch." I said I feared it was his own supper. "Oh," said he, "I can do fine wanting it, I'll take the ale, though, for it slockens my cough." He drank the cup about half out, still keeping an eye upon me as he drank...
To desire a romantic, especially sexual, relationship with someone; to lust for.
Usage notes
This is a catenative verb. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Conjugation
Synonyms
(desire):set one's heart on, wish for, would like
(not to have): lack, be without
(require):need, be in need of
Derived terms
Descendants
Chinese Pidgin English: wantchee, 灣治
Sranan Tongo: wani
Translations
Noun
want (countable and uncountable, pluralwants)
(countable) A desire, wish, longing.
(countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
(uncountable) Poverty.
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
(UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
Derived terms
for want of
want ad
wantful
wantless
wantsome
wanty
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishwont(“mole”), from Old Englishwand, wond, from Proto-Germanic*wanduz.
Pronunciation
enPR: wŏnt, IPA(key): /wɒnt/
Noun
want (pluralwants)
(dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
References
“want”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“want”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
tawn
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutchwant, from Middle Dutchwant, from Old Dutchwanda, from Proto-Germanic*hwandē.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /vant/
Conjunction
want
for, because
Dutch
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʋɑnt/
Hyphenation: want
Rhymes: -ɑnt
Homophone: wand
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutchwant, from Old Dutchwanda, from Proto-Germanic*hwandê. Cognate with Old High Germanwanta, Middle High Germanwante.
Conjunction
want
for, because, as
Synonyms
(dated)dewijl
Hyponyms
omdat
doordat
Descendants
Afrikaans: want
Negerhollands: want
→ Kwinti: want
See also
aangezien
omdat
vermits
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutchwant, from Old Dutch*want, from Frankish*wantu, from Proto-Germanic*wantuz.
Noun
wantf (pluralwanten, diminutivewantjen)
A mitten, type of glove in which four fingers get only one section, besides the thumb.
Hypernym:handschoen
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Munsee: wa’nt
→ Papiamentu: wante
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutchwant, gewant, from Old Dutch*giwant, from Proto-Germanic*gawandą, from the root of winden.
Noun
wantn (pluralwanten, diminutivewantjen)
A course type of woolen fabric; anything made from it.
The rigging, ropes supporting masts and sails aboard a ship. shroud, sideways support for a mast.
Synonyms:touwwerk, wantwerk
Various types of nets and snares for fishing, hunting or farming.
Horse tackle.
Derived terms
wantborstel
wanthuis
wantschaar
wantsnijder
- concerning rigging
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
want
inflection of wannen:
second/third-person singular present indicative
(archaic)plural imperative
Middle Dutch
Etymology 1
from Old Dutchwanda, from Proto-Germanic*hwandē.
Conjunction
want
because, for
Descendants
Dutch: want
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch*want, from Frankish*wantu.
Noun
wantm
A glove, mitten.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Dutch: want
Further reading
“want (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “want (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “want (V)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page V
Old High German
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic*wanduz(“stick, rod; barrier made of sticks, fence”), whence also Old Norsevǫndr, Gothic𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃(wandus).
Noun
wantf
a wall
Descendants
Middle High German: want
Central Franconian: Wand, Wank
Cimbrian: bant
German: Wand
Hunsrik: Wand
Luxembourgish: Wand
Pennsylvania German: Wand
Vilamovian: waond
Yiddish: וואַנט(vant)
Etymology 2
Verb
want
first/third-person singular past indicative of wintan
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian*wyente, from Post-PIE *h₂weh₁ntos, from Proto-Indo-European*h₂wéh₁n̥ts, from *h₂weh₁-(“to blow”) (compare Englishwind, Latinventus). Compare Tocharian Byente.
Noun
want
wind
West Frisian
Alternative forms
hwant
Etymology
From Old Frisianhwant, hwante, hwande, hwanda, from Proto-Germanic*hwandê.
Conjunction
want
because
Synonyms
omdat
Yola
Verb
want
Alternative form of waunt
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 102