Word Meanings - WOULD-BE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
' (as, a would-be poet.
Related words: (words related to WOULD-BE)
- WOULDINGNESS
Willingness; desire. - WOULD-BE
' (as, a would-be poet. - WOULD
Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer. - WOULDING
Emotion of desire; inclination; velleity. Hammond.