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.