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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
will1
modal verb (3rd sing. present will; past would)
  • 1 expressing the future tense.

    ■ expressing a strong intention or assertion about the future.

  • 2 expressing inevitable events.
  • 3 expressing a request.

    ■ expressing desire, consent, or willingness.

  • 4 expressing facts about ability or capacity.
  • 5 expressing habitual behaviour.
  • 6 expressing probability or expectation about something in the present.
– origin OE wyllan, of Gmc origin.
usage: On the differences in use between will and shall, see usage at shall.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
will2
noun
  • 1 the faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action.

    ■ (also willpower) control or restraint deliberately exerted.

    ■ a desire or intention.

  • 2 a legal document containing instructions for the disposition of one's money and property after one's death.
verb
  • 1 chiefly formal or literary intend or desire to happen.

    ■ bring about by the exercise of mental powers.

  • 2 (will something to) bequeath something to.

    ■ leave specified instructions in one's will.

– phrases
at will at whatever time or in whatever way one pleases.
have a will of one's own have a wilful character.
with the best will in the world however good one's intentions.
with a will energetically and resolutely.
– derivatives
-willed adjective,
willer noun.
– origin OE willa (n.), willian (v.), of Gmc origin; rel. to will1 and the adverb well1.
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