Wish: Definition and part of speech

Wish

  1. n. A thing desired; an object of desire.
  2. v. t. To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
  3. v. t. To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
  4. v. t. To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.
  5. v. t. To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
  6. n. Desire; eager desire; longing.
  7. n. Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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