--- title: W — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 4 description: The 590 words of the English dictionary under W, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / W # W — The English dictionary · page 4 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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[34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/34/) **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.[↗](../../wanderer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A wanderer can also be someone who likes to roam and explore.[↗](../../wanderer/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old wanderer slept under the stars.[↗](../../wanderer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our cat is a wanderer and visits every garden on the street.[↗](../../wanderer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The ancient Greeks called the planets «wanderers».[↗](../../wanderer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The wanderer told stories in every village he passed.[↗](../../wanderer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Albatrosses are great wanderers of the southern oceans.[↗](../../wanderer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the poem, a lonely wanderer walks across the hills.[↗](../../wanderer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · From the remotest days men have been wanderers, and wherever they went their stories accompanied them.[↗](../../wanderer/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.[↗](../../wanderer/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.14.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wanderer/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 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.'[↗](../../wanderer/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wanderer/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · If I have seen any wanderer in want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering; (Writings JOB.31.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wanderer/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.[↗](../../wanderer/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.5.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wanderer/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.[↗](../../wanderer/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets HOS.9.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wanderer/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **wandering** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A wandering is a journey taken from place to place with no fixed aim.[↗](../../wandering/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Wandering means moving from place to place with no fixed home.[↗](../../wandering/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* After his wanderings, he came home.[↗](../../wandering/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The wandering prince had no fixed home.[↗](../../wandering/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He sat down, tired from his wanderings.[↗](../../wandering/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field.[↗](../../wandering/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.37.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wandering/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · As the wandering sparrow, as the flying swallow, so the curse that is causeless shall come home.[↗](../../wandering/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.26.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wandering/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Thou has counted my wanderings; put Thou my tears into Thy bottle; are they not in Thy book?[↗](../../wandering/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.56.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wandering/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.[↗](../../wandering/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings ECC.6.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wandering/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **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.[↗](../../wane/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To become weaker, smaller or less important little by little: interest, light or strength can wane.[↗](../../wane/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* After the full moon, the Moon begins to wane.[↗](../../wane/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We drew the waning moon in our science diary.[↗](../../wane/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · As the evening went on, the light began to wane.[↗](../../wane/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My interest in the film waned after half an hour.[↗](../../wane/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The storm waned during the night.[↗](../../wane/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The fashion for that toy is on the wane.[↗](../../wane/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The Moon waxes and wanes about once a month.[↗](../../wane/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · When he finds her, she is living at ease in a large house, but day by day her riches wane and her house contracts.[↗](../../wane/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **waning** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Waning is the -ing form of «wane»: getting smaller or weaker little by little.[↗](../../waning/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *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.[↗](../../waning/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Interest, light, strength or power that is waning is slowly fading away.[↗](../../waning/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Tonight the moon is waning, so it looks thinner.[↗](../../waning/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A waning crescent rises late at night.[↗](../../waning/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The light was waning as we walked home.[↗](../../waning/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · His interest in the game was waning after an hour.[↗](../../waning/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · By the end of the race her energy was waning.[↗](../../waning/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The storm was waning, and the rain grew softer.[↗](../../waning/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After the full moon comes the waning gibbous moon.[↗](../../waning/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The king's power was on the wane.[↗](../../waning/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘Make one more struggle; it is nearly over now,’ said the horse, seeing that Petru’s strength was waning fast.[↗](../../waning/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **want** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To want means to wish to have or do something.[↗](../../want/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «Want to» + a verb means you would like to do it: «I want to play».[↗](../../want/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Wanted» on a poster means the police are looking for someone.[↗](../../want/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Wants are things people wish for but do not really need, unlike needs.[↗](../../want/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* To lack or be short of something, so that one needs it.[↗](../../want/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She wants 20 stickers and has 12.[↗](../../want/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He wants to buy a bike that costs 80 dollars.[↗](../../want/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · How many more does she want?[↗](../../want/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Tom wants to share 15 apples equally.[↗](../../want/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Do you want some juice?[↗](../../want/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I want to be a vet when I grow up.[↗](../../want/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Food is a need, but a new game is a want.[↗](../../want/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The sheriff put up a «wanted» poster.[↗](../../want/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · “But we want you to dance.”[↗](../../want/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.[↗](../../want/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.47.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../want/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · "lien Sira wanted to study the Sefer Yetzira, when a heav- enly voice came out and snid: 'Thou canst nut do it aloin-'.[↗](../../want/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../want/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · 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))[↗](../../want/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.[↗](../../want/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.23.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../want/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · TEKEL, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.[↗](../../want/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings DAN.5.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../want/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.[↗](../../want/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.6.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../want/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") · And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.[↗](../../want/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.47.12, JPS 1917) · “But we want you to dance.”[↗](../../want/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") (Peter Pan) · "I don't want anything," replied Petrusha.[↗](../../want/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) **wantest** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «wantest» means «you want», a form of «want».[↗](../../wantest/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* To want means to wish to have or do something.[↗](../../wantest/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *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."[↗](../../wantest/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) **wanteth** — *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* «wanteth» means «wants», a form of «want».[↗](../../wanteth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* To want means to wish to have or do something.[↗](../../wanteth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.[↗](../../wanteth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (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.[↗](../../wantonness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *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.[↗](../../wantonness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.20.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wantonness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 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.[↗](../../wantonness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.9.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../wantonness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The wantonness of the thief shocked the village.[↗](../../wantonness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Envy and wantonness filled the palace.[↗](../../wantonness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The tale warns against wantonness and greed.[↗](../../wantonness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **war** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A war is a long fight between countries or large groups using soldiers and weapons.[↗](../../war/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A war is also a big struggle against something bad, like «a war on litter».[↗](../../war/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Any long, fierce competition can be called a war, like «a price war».[↗](../../war/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The war lasted for six years.[↗](../../war/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My great-grandpa fought in the Second World War.[↗](../../war/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Many people lost their homes in the war.[↗](../../war/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The two countries signed a peace treaty to end the war.[↗](../../war/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We wear poppies to remember those who died in wars.[↗](../../war/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our town declared war on litter.[↗](../../war/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The shops had a price war.[↗](../../war/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · They asked him about the war.[↗](../../war/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The LORD is a man of war, The LORD is His name.[↗](../../war/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.15.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../war/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. — (Torah NUM.31.53, JPS 1917)[↗](../../war/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And they warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew every male.[↗](../../war/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.31.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../war/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And the land had rest from war.[↗](../../war/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.11.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../war/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.[↗](../../war/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.15.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../war/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.[↗](../../war/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.13.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../war/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **warble** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Of a bird: to sing with a sweet, trembling, changing sound.[↗](../../warble/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Of a person: to sing in a high, wobbly voice, often said jokingly.[↗](../../warble/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun) A warbling sound.[↗](../../warble/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A little bird warbled in the hedge.[↗](../../warble/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We heard blackbirds warbling at dawn.[↗](../../warble/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad warbled an old song while he made the tea.[↗](../../warble/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The singer's voice warbled on the high notes.[↗](../../warble/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The warble of the robin filled the garden.[↗](../../warble/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My sister warbles along to every song on the radio.[↗](../../warble/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "Through the forest, and in the vale, Sweetly warbles the nightingale.[↗](../../warble/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **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.[↗](../../warbler/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A warbler is a person who sings, especially in a wobbly or not very good way.[↗](../../warbler/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A warbler was singing in the willow tree.[↗](../../warbler/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Warblers fly to Africa for the winter.[↗](../../warbler/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The yellow warbler is common in Canada in summer.[↗](../../warbler/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · It is hard to see warblers among the leaves.[↗](../../warbler/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We heard a warbler but could not spot it.[↗](../../warbler/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa is a cheerful warbler in the shower.[↗](../../warbler/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Warblers catch tiny insects to feed their chicks.[↗](../../warbler/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **ward** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A room in a hospital with beds for patients.[↗](../../ward/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An area of a town or city that votes for its own councillor.[↗](../../ward/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A child who is looked after by a guardian or court, not their parents.[↗](../../ward/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb, «ward off») To keep something bad away: ward off germs.[↗](../../ward/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandpa is on a ward on the third floor.[↗](../../ward/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurses on the children's ward were very kind.[↗](../../ward/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our town is split into six wards.[↗](../../ward/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The orphan became the ward of her uncle.[↗](../../ward/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Garlic was said to ward off vampires in old stories.[↗](../../ward/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Wear a warm coat to ward off the cold.[↗](../../ward/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “Let us do so,” his ward agreed[↗](../../ward/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And he put them all together into ward three days.[↗](../../ward/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.42.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ward/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.[↗](../../ward/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.15.34, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ward/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.[↗](../../ward/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.24.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ward/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in wards.[↗](../../ward/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.12.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ward/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And I will shoot three arrows to the side-ward, as though I shot at a mark.[↗](../../ward/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.20.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ward/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the store-houses of the gates.[↗](../../ward/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.12.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../ward/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **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.[↗](../../warden/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A prison governor in the US is called a warden.[↗](../../warden/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A traffic warden (UK) checks cars are parked legally.[↗](../../warden/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (church) A churchwarden helps run a parish.[↗](../../warden/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The park warden told us not to feed the ducks.[↗](../../warden/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher is the fire warden for this floor.[↗](../../warden/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The traffic warden gave Dad a parking ticket.[↗](../../warden/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The game warden protects the animals from hunters.[↗](../../warden/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The prisoners stood in line while the warden walked past.[↗](../../warden/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The hostel warden locks the doors at night.[↗](../../warden/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **warder** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (UK, old) A person who guards prisoners in a prison; a prison guard.[↗](../../warder/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old) A person who guards a gate or a building.[↗](../../warder/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The warder rattled his keys.[↗](../../warder/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Yeoman Warders guard the Tower of London.[↗](../../warder/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Toad crept past the sleeping warder.[↗](../../warder/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Every evening the warder locked the cells.[↗](../../warder/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The warder at the gate asked who we were.[↗](../../warder/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Old prisons had warders in dark uniforms.[↗](../../warder/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · 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.[↗](../../warder/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **wardrobe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A wardrobe is a tall cupboard where you hang clothes.[↗](../../wardrobe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Your wardrobe is also all the clothes you own.[↗](../../wardrobe/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In a theatre, the wardrobe is the department that keeps and makes the costumes.[↗](../../wardrobe/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Please hang your coat in the wardrobe.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The wardrobe has two doors and a mirror.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Lucy stepped into the wardrobe and found snow.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She needs a new winter wardrobe because she grew.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My dad's wardrobe is mostly jeans and T-shirts.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The actors got their costumes from the wardrobe department.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Never climb on a wardrobe; it could tip over.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We put the spare blankets on top of the wardrobe.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The princesses began at once to open their wardrobes and boxes.[↗](../../wardrobe/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/3/) **4** [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/5/) … [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/34/) - ← previous: [page 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/3/) - next →: [page 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/page/5/) - ↑ back to 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