will

1. 1.

   decree or ordain

   “God wills our existence”

   Broaderordain
2. 2.

   determine by choice

   “This action was willed and intended”

   Broaderdecide
3. 3.

   leave or give by will after one's death

   “My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry”

   “My grandfather left me his entire estate”

   Synonymsbequeathleave

   Broadergive

   Narrowerdevisepass onrememberfee-tail

Other forms of will

plural

wills·

past tense

willed·

present participle

willing·

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.

Questions about will

What does will mean?

will means "the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in will?

will has 1 syllable: will. In IPA it is /ˈwɪl/.

What is another word for will?

Close synonyms include volition, testament, bequeath, leave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is will a common word?

will is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.