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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.

 

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