A personification of want.

(countable) A desire, wish, longing.

(countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.

(uncountable) Poverty.

Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

(UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

(transitive) To wish for or desire something, feel a need or craving for it, and potentially make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable or challenging to refrain from doing it.

(transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

(intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

(colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something .

(transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).

(transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.