wish
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wish/wɪʃ/
▶verb
- 1 desire something that cannot or probably will not happen.
- 2 want to do something.
■ ask (someone) to do something or that (something) be done.
- 3 express a hope that (someone) has (happiness or success).
■ (wish someone/thing on) hope that (someone) has to deal with someone or something undesirable.
- 1 a desire or hope, or an expression of this.
■ (wishes) an expression of a hope for someone's happiness, success, or welfare.
- 2 a thing wished for.
– derivatives
-wisher noun.
-wisher noun.
'wish' also found in these Oxford entries:
arm
- bear
- benedicite
- benevolent
- bon appétit
- breaker
- comply
- death wish
- desire
- device
- dingus
- disposal
- ex-directory
- forbid
- gesundheit
- here
- like
- LISTSERV
- long
- malevolent
- market
- may
- mirage
- mood
- nolo contendere
- oak
- optative
- please
- pleasure
- pray
- prayer
- precatory
- quorum
- reaction formation
- requiescat
- require
- rue
- that
- thing
- thingummy
- truck
- velleity
- volition
- vote
- want
- ween
- whatsit
- whistle
- wishbone
