wantとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: wŏnt, IPA^(key): /wɒnt/
• (米国発音) enPR: wŏnt, wŭnt, wônt IPA^(key): /wɑnt/, /wʌnt/, /wɔnt/^[1]
• (General Australian) enPR: wŏnt, IPA^(key): /wɔnt/
• (General New Zealand) enPR: wŏnt, wŭnt, IPA^(key): /wɔnt/, (一般的ではない用法) /wɐnt/
• 韻: -ɒnt, -ʌnt, -ɔːnt
• Homophone: wont

語源

From Middle English wanten (“to lack”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), 古期英語 wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.

動詞

want (三人称単数 現在形 wants, 現在分詞 wanting, 過去形および過去分詞形 wanted)

1. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. [from 18th c.]

   What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.

   • 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     I want to find a supermarket. — Oh, okay. The supermarket is at 1500 Irving Street. It is near the apartment. — Great!

   1. (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.

      The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.

      Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.

2. (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

   Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.

   Danish police want him for embezzlement.

   • 2010, Fred Vargas, The Chalk Circle Man, Vintage Canada (→ISBN), page 75:

     But now it's different, if the police want him for murder.

3. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

   You can leave if you want.

   • 2019 May 5, "The Last of the Starks", Game of Thrones season 8 episode 4 (written by David Benioff かつ D. B. Weiss):

     TYRION: You don't want it?

     BRAN: I don't really want anymore.

4. (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).

   You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.

5. (transitive, now 口語) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun または verbal noun). [from 15th c.]
   • 1741, The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794, page 559:

     The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which she wants but a few months.

   • 1839, Chambers's Journal, page 123:

     Oh Jeanie, it will be hard, after every thing is ready for our happiness, if we should be sundered. It wants but a few days o' Martinmas, and then I maun enter on my new service on Loch Rannoch, where a bonny shieling is ready ...

   • 1847, The American Protestant, page 27:

     In this we have just read an address to children in England, Ireland, and Scotland, in behalf of children who want food to keep them from starvation.

   • 1866, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 7:

     “Your hair wants cutting,” said the Hatter. He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Chapter 2:

     The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.

   That chair wants fixing.

6. (transitive, now まれに) To have occasion for (something requisite または useful); to require or need.
   • 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts:

     Man wants but little, nor that little long.

   • 1776, Oliver Goldsmith, Hermit, in The Vicar of Wakefield:

     Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.

   • 1854', Henry David Thoreau, Walden Economy

     [...] for my greatest skill has been to want but little.

7. (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent. [from 13th c.]

   There was something wanting in the play.

   • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes: In Five Bookes, page 404:

     They of the Citie fought valiantly with Engines, Darts, Arrowes: and when Stones wanted, they threw Siluer, especially molten siluer.

   • a. 1701, John Dryden, The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, III, または IV), London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003:

     , Preface

     The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life.

   • 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:

     For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.

8. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
   • c. 1605-1606, Ben Jonson, Volpone (The Fox)

     You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.

   The paupers desperately want.

9. (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something). [from 13th c.]
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World: part. III and IV, page 141:

     The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to Dotage, and entirely lose their Memories; these meet with more Pity and Assistance, because they want many bad Qualities which abound in others.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth […] wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.

   • 1765, James Merrick, Psalams

     Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh, let thy grace supply!

   • 1711 July 15, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 108; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     I observed […] that your whip wanted a lash to it.

   She wanted anything she needed.

10. (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.
    • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes: In Five Bookes, page 50:

      [...] which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing to want his presence.

    • 1797, The European Magazine, and London Review, page 226:

      For Law, Physick and Divinitie, need so the help of tongs and sciences, as thei can not want them, and yet thei require so a hole mans studie, as thei may parte with no tyme to other lerning, ...

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• (desire): set one's heart on, wish for, would like
• (lack): be without
• (require): need, be in need of

派生語

派生した語

• Chinese Pidgin English: wantchee, 灣治

名詞

want (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 wants)

1. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
2. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
   • For Want of a Nail:

     For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

     For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

     For want of a horse the rider was lost.

     For want of a rider the battle was lost.

     For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

     And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2, act 4, sc. 8:

     [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Job 24:8:

     They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.

3. (uncountable) Poverty.
   • 1713, Jonathan Swift, A Preface to Bishop Burnet's Introduction

     Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

4. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
   • 1785, William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

     Habitual superfluities become actual wants.

5. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

派生語

• want ad
• wantful
• wantless
• wantsome
• wanty

参照

• want at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• tawn

発音

• IPA^(key): /wɒnt/, (弱勢) /wənt/

短縮形

wa'n't

1. (colloquial, dated) Pronunciation spelling of wasn't.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.