English Dictionary

want

/wɒnt/

noun

(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.

I have a want for adventure.

意味（1）

(countable) A desire, wish, longing.

意味（2）

(countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.

A want of sense.

意味（3）

(uncountable) Poverty.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

意味（4）

Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

意味（5）

(UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.