wants (noun)
1wants — UK US /wɒnts/ noun [plural] COMMERCE, MARKETING ► products and services that people want and need: »The Marketing Department researches our customers wants and needs …
2wishful thinking — noun the illusion that what you wish for is actually true (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑illusion, ↑fantasy, ↑phantasy, ↑fancy * * * noun 1. : illusory attribution of actuality to what one wishes to be or become true and discovery of justifications for… …
3dear john — noun Usage: usually capitalized D&J : a letter (as to a soldier) in which a wife asks for a divorce or a girl friend breaks off an engagement or a friendship * * * Informal. 1. a letter from a woman informing her boyfriend or fiancé that she is… …
4brush-off — noun a curt or disdainful rejection • Derivationally related forms: ↑brush off • Hypernyms: ↑rejection * * * n discouragement, dismissal, rebuff, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repulse, slight, snub FORMAL repu …
5ground floor — noun 1. the floor of a building that is at or nearest to the level of the ground around the building (Freq. 4) • Syn: ↑first floor, ↑ground level • Hypernyms: ↑floor, ↑level, ↑storey, ↑story …
6sell-by date — noun a date stamped on perishable produce indicating the date by which it should be sold • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …
7Young Turk — noun a member of one or more of the insurgent groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule • Hypernyms: ↑insurgent, ↑insurrectionist, ↑freedom fighter, ↑rebel * * * I. noun Usage: usually… …
8young Turk — noun a young radical who agitates for reform • Hypernyms: ↑radical * * * I. noun Usage: usually capitalized Y&T Etymology: Young Turkish, member of a revolutionary party in Turkey in the early years of the 20th century : an insurgent or a member… …
9wanter — noun One who wants, or who wants something …
10gossoon — noun /ɡɒˈsuːn/ A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey. ‘He wants to be something hes not,’ hed say. ‘Hes fish, that gossoon, and he wants to be fowl.’ …
