wish¹ /wish/

1. To want or require, as in anything you wish, or (dialect) wish a cup of tea
2. To desire, esp vainly or helplessly, as in wish you'd told me
3. To express a desire for (luck, happiness, etc) to come to
4. To say (good afternoon, etc) to
5. (with a neg and on) to desire (something to be inflicted on), to invoke, as in wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy
6. To impose, inflict or foist (with on; informal)
7. To bid or request
8. To hope (archaic)
9. To recommend (obsolete)
10. To bewitch (dialect)
11. To greet, wish (someone) well (S Afr)
12. To state (a wish) in superstitious hope of its being magically fulfilled

1. To have a desire (with for)
2. To long (with for)
3. To state a desire in superstitious hope of its being magically fulfilled

1. A desire, longing
2. A thing desired
3. An expression of desire
4. (usu in pl) an expression of desire for good fortune for another
5. The stating of a desire in superstitious hope of its being magically fulfilled
6. A malediction (obsolete)

wishˈer noun

wishˈful adjective

1. Having a wish or desire
2. Eager
3. Desirable, desired (obsolete)

wishˈfully adverb

wishˈfulness noun

wishˈing noun and adjective

wishˈbone or wishˈing-bone noun

1. The V-shaped bone formed by the fused clavicles of a bird's breast, by tradition pulled apart by two people in playful divination, the longer part indicating the first to be married or the one whose wish will be fulfilled
2. (wishˈbone) a V-shaped member used in independent suspension systems (motoring)

wish fulfilment noun (psychology)

The satisfaction of a desire in dreams, daydreams, etc

wishful thinking noun (psychology)

1. A type of thinking in which the individual substitutes the fantasy of the fulfilment of the wish for the actual achievement
2. A belief that a particular thing will happen, or is so, engendered by desire that it should happen, or be so
3. (loosely) thinking about and wishing for an event or turn of fortune that may not take place

wishˈing-cap noun

A cap by wearing which one obtains everything one wishes

wishing stone, tree, well, etc noun

A stone, tree, well, etc supposed to have the power of making a wish expressed at it come true

wish list noun

A mental list of desiderata

wish someone further (slang)

To wish someone was in some other place, not present

wish someone joy of something (usu ironic)

To hope that the possession of something (usu that one is glad not to have, or glad to be rid of) will be of benefit to someone

wish to God

To wish earnestly

wis /wis/, also wist /wist/, Shakespeare wish /wish/ (all pseudo-archaic)

1. To know
2. To believe

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