📖 W — The English dictionary · page 4

wanderer — Everyday, meaning 1: A wanderer is a person or animal that travels from place to place with no fixed home or no clear plan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wanderer can also be someone who likes to roam and explore.↗ Example: The old wanderer slept under the stars.↗ · Our cat is a wanderer and visits every garden on the street.↗ · The ancient Greeks called the planets «wanderers».↗ · The wanderer told stories in every village he passed.↗ · Albatrosses are great wanderers of the southern oceans.↗ · In the poem, a lonely wanderer walks across the hills.↗ · From the remotest days men have been wanderers, and wherever they went their stories accompanied them.↗ · And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.↗ (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.'↗ (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917)↗ · If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; (Writings JOB.31.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.↗ (Prophets ISA.5.17, JPS 1917)↗ · My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.↗ (Prophets HOS.9.17, JPS 1917)↗

wandering — Everyday, meaning 1: A wandering is a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wandering means moving from place to place with no fixed home.↗ Example: After his wanderings, he came home.↗ · The wandering prince had no fixed home.↗ · He sat down, tired from his wanderings.↗ · And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.↗ (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917)↗ · As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.↗ (Writings PRO.26.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?↗ (Writings PSA.56.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.↗ (Writings ECC.6.9, JPS 1917)↗

wane — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Of the Moon: to look smaller each night after the full moon, as less of its lit side faces the Earth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become weaker, smaller or less important little by little: interest, light or strength can wane.↗ Example: After the full moon, the Moon begins to wane.↗ · We drew the waning moon in our science diary.↗ · As the evening went on, the light began to wane.↗ · My interest in the film waned after half an hour.↗ · The storm waned during the night.↗ · The fashion for that toy is on the wane.↗ · The Moon waxes and wanes about once a month.↗ · When he finds her, she is living at ease in a large house, but day by day her riches wane and her house contracts.↗

waning — Everyday, meaning 1: Waning is the -ing form of «wane»: getting smaller or weaker little by little.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The waning moon is the moon in the part of its cycle after the full moon, when the lit-up part we see gets smaller each night.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Interest, light, strength or power that is waning is slowly fading away.↗ Example: Tonight the moon is waning, so it looks thinner.↗ · A waning crescent rises late at night.↗ · The light was waning as we walked home.↗ · His interest in the game was waning after an hour.↗ · By the end of the race her energy was waning.↗ · The storm was waning, and the rain grew softer.↗ · After the full moon comes the waning gibbous moon.↗ · The king's power was on the wane.↗ · ‘Make one more struggle; it is nearly over now,’ said the horse, seeing that Petru’s strength was waning fast.↗

want — Everyday, meaning 1: To want means to wish to have or do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Want to» + a verb means you would like to do it: «I want to play».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Wanted» on a poster means the police are looking for someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Wants are things people wish for but do not really need, unlike needs.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: To lack or be short of something, so that one needs it.↗ Example: She wants 20 stickers and has 12.↗ · He wants to buy a bike that costs 80 dollars.↗ · How many more does she want?↗ · Tom wants to share 15 apples equally.↗ · Do you want some juice?↗ · I want to be a vet when I grow up.↗ · Food is a need, but a new game is a want.↗ · The sheriff put up a «wanted» poster.↗ · “But we want you to dance.”↗ · And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.↗ (Torah GEN.47.12, JPS 1917)↗ · "lien Sira wanted to study the Sefer Yetzira, when a heav- enly voice came out and snid: 'Thou canst nut do it aloin-'.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Then the one whom they had created said to them: 'God created Adam, and when He wanted to put him to death, he erased a letter fro7n the wind p]met and it became Met (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.↗ (Writings PSA.23.1, JPS 1917)↗ · TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.↗ (Writings DAN.5.27, JPS 1917)↗ · So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.↗ (Writings PRO.6.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.↗ (Torah GEN.47.12, JPS 1917) · “But we want you to dance.”↗ (Peter Pan) · "I don't want anything," replied Petrusha.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore)

wantest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «wantest» means «you want», a form of «want».↗ e.g. To want means to wish to have or do something.↗ Example: And whenever thou wantest a meal say, 'Sack, sack, give me to eat and drink!' and immediately thou shalt have thy fill both of meat and drink, so now thou wilt have wherewithal to comfort thy wife and children."↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales)

wanteth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «wanteth» means «wants», a form of «want».↗ e.g. To want means to wish to have or do something.↗ Example: but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.↗ (Torah DEU.15.8, JPS 1917)

wantonness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Wantonness is wild, careless or cruel behaviour that has no restraint, often greedy or unkind.↗ Example: And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and wantonness in Israel.↗ (Prophets JDG.20.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh wantonness.↗ (Prophets ISA.9.16, JPS 1917)↗ · The wantonness of the thief shocked the village.↗ · Envy and wantonness filled the palace.↗ · The tale warns against wantonness and greed.↗

war — Everyday, meaning 1: A war is a long fight between countries or large groups using soldiers and weapons.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A war is also a big struggle against something bad, like «a war on litter».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Any long, fierce competition can be called a war, like «a price war».↗ Example: The war lasted for six years.↗ · My great-grandpa fought in the Second World War.↗ · Many people lost their homes in the war.↗ · The two countries signed a peace treaty to end the war.↗ · We wear poppies to remember those who died in wars.↗ · Our town declared war on litter.↗ · The shops had a price war.↗ · They asked him about the war.↗ · The LORD is a man of war, The LORD is His name.↗ (Torah EXO.15.3, JPS 1917)↗ · For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. — (Torah NUM.31.53, JPS 1917)↗ · And they warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew every male.↗ (Torah NUM.31.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the land had rest from war.↗ (Prophets JOS.11.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.↗ (Prophets 1KI.15.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.↗ (Writings 2CH.13.2, JPS 1917)↗

warble — Everyday, meaning 1: Of a bird: to sing with a sweet, trembling, changing sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Of a person: to sing in a high, wobbly voice, often said jokingly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A warbling sound.↗ Example: A little bird warbled in the hedge.↗ · We heard blackbirds warbling at dawn.↗ · Grandad warbled an old song while he made the tea.↗ · The singer's voice warbled on the high notes.↗ · The warble of the robin filled the garden.↗ · My sister warbles along to every song on the radio.↗ · "Through the forest, and in the vale, Sweetly warbles the nightingale.↗

warbler — Everyday, meaning 1: A warbler is one of many kinds of small, often greenish or brownish songbirds that eat insects and sing quick, trilling songs, such as the willow warbler or the yellow warbler.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A warbler is a person who sings, especially in a wobbly or not very good way.↗ Example: A warbler was singing in the willow tree.↗ · Warblers fly to Africa for the winter.↗ · The yellow warbler is common in Canada in summer.↗ · It is hard to see warblers among the leaves.↗ · We heard a warbler but could not spot it.↗ · Grandpa is a cheerful warbler in the shower.↗ · Warblers catch tiny insects to feed their chicks.↗

ward — Everyday, meaning 1: A room in a hospital with beds for patients.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An area of a town or city that votes for its own councillor.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A child who is looked after by a guardian or court, not their parents.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, «ward off») To keep something bad away: ward off germs.↗ Example: Grandpa is on a ward on the third floor.↗ · The nurses on the children's ward were very kind.↗ · Our town is split into six wards.↗ · The orphan became the ward of her uncle.↗ · Garlic was said to ward off vampires in old stories.↗ · Wear a warm coat to ward off the cold.↗ · “Let us do so,” his ward agreed↗ · And he put them all together into ward three days.↗ (Torah GEN.42.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.↗ (Torah NUM.15.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.24.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards.↗ (Writings NEH.12.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will shoot three arrows to the side-ward, as though I shot at a mark.↗ (Prophets 1SA.20.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.↗ (Writings NEH.12.25, JPS 1917)↗

warden — Everyday, meaning 1: A warden is a person whose job is to look after a place or the people in it, like a park, a hall of residence or a nature reserve.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A prison governor in the US is called a warden.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A traffic warden (UK) checks cars are parked legally.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church) A churchwarden helps run a parish.↗ Example: The park warden told us not to feed the ducks.↗ · Our teacher is the fire warden for this floor.↗ · The traffic warden gave Dad a parking ticket.↗ · The game warden protects the animals from hunters.↗ · The prisoners stood in line while the warden walked past.↗ · The hostel warden locks the doors at night.↗

warder — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, old) A person who guards prisoners in a prison; a prison guard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) A person who guards a gate or a building.↗ Example: The warder rattled his keys.↗ · The Yeoman Warders guard the Tower of London.↗ · Toad crept past the sleeping warder.↗ · Every evening the warder locked the cells.↗ · The warder at the gate asked who we were.↗ · Old prisons had warders in dark uniforms.↗ · I twirled the weather-cock round on the summit of the tower, and it creaked like the snoring of a warder, but no warder was there; nothing but mice and rats.↗

wardrobe — Everyday, meaning 1: A wardrobe is a tall cupboard where you hang clothes.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your wardrobe is also all the clothes you own.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a theatre, the wardrobe is the department that keeps and makes the costumes.↗ Example: Please hang your coat in the wardrobe.↗ · The wardrobe has two doors and a mirror.↗ · Lucy stepped into the wardrobe and found snow.↗ · She needs a new winter wardrobe because she grew.↗ · My dad's wardrobe is mostly jeans and T-shirts.↗ · The actors got their costumes from the wardrobe department.↗ · Never climb on a wardrobe; it could tip over.↗ · We put the spare blankets on top of the wardrobe.↗ · The princesses began at once to open their wardrobes and boxes.↗