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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to have a strong desire or hope for something that is not easy to obtain or is unlikely to happen;

e.g. I wish I could fly or teleport myself to any part of the world.

(noun)

a desire or that idealized, hoped-for thing;

e.g. She has a wish to travel to all continents before her life is over.

(noun)

a recitation of a hope or desire;

e.g. Before she blew the candles on the cake, she made a wish.

(verb)

to bid or to give expression to someone as a wish;

e.g. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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Similar Words

Crave

Desideratum

Foist

Grail

Inflict

Like

Palm

Pine

Please

Precondition

Prerequisite

Want

Will

Would

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Related Words

Aim

Allow

Ambition

Appetency

Appetite

Aspiration

Aspirational

Aspire

Begrudge

Calculate

Claim

Condition

Contemplate

Counterfeit

Covet

Crave

Craving

Decide

Design

Desire

Determine

Distort

Drive

Dun

End

Entail

Essential

Essentially

Fake

Falsify

Fancy

Force

Forge

Go

Goal

Hunger

Idea

Ideal

Importunity

Impose

Inflict

Intend

Intent

Intention

Itch

Jones

Letch

Longing

Look

Lust

Mean

Meaning

Meditate

Misrepresent

Must

Must-have

Necessary

Necessity

Need

Needful

Object

Objective

Objectively

Plan

Point

Pretension

Propose

Purport

Purpose

Requirement

Requisite

Requisition

Resolve

Target

Thing

Thirst

Ultimatum

Urge

Yearning

Yen

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Quotes

• "Life is like a coin.You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." -- Lillian Dickson

• "The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'." -- Charles Dickens

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Phrases

• break a leg

• bucket list

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