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say it: wahnt
want is a verb and noun meaning "feel or have a desire for; want strongly". It is pronounced /ˈwɑnt/ — wahnt. It carries 9 recorded senses.
hunt or look for; want for a particular reason
“Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI”
“Uncle Sam wants you”
be without, lack; be deficient in
“want courtesy”
“want the strength to go on living”
“flood victims wanting food and shelter”
a state of extreme poverty
the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
“there is a serious lack of insight into the problem”
“water is the critical deficiency in desert regions”
“for want of a nail the shoe was lost”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for want come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.