{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "wʊd" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/would.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/would.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Old English wolde, past tense of willan." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.", "submean": [ "Used to form the \"anterior future\", or \"future in the past\", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. \nOn my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.\n1867, Anthony Trollope, Last Chronicle of Barset, Ch.28:\nThat her Lily should have been won and not worn, had been, and would be, a trouble to her for ever.\n1913, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., , , →OCLC, page 0056:\nThanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.\n2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2-3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:Toure would have the decisive say though, rising high to power a header past Kenny from Aleksandar Kolarov's cross.", "Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly. \nWhen we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.\n2009, \"Soundtrack of my life\", The Guardian, 15 March:\nWhen we were kids we would sit by the radio with a tape recorder on a Sunday, listening out for the chart songs we wanted to have.", "Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something. \nI asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.\n1836, “Boz” , chapter V, in Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, , →OCLC:Then he took to breeding silk-worms, which he would bring in two or three times a day, in little paper boxes, to show the old lady .", "Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.). \nHe denied it, but then he would, wouldn't he?\n2009, \"Is the era of free news over?\", The Observer, 10 May:\nThe free access model, the media magnate said last week, was \"malfunctioning\". Well he would, wouldn't he?", "(archaic) Wanted to. \n1490, William Caxton, Prologue to Eneydos:And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel.\n1852, James Murdock, trans. Johann Lorenz Mosheim, Institutes of Ecclesiastical History, II.7.iii:\nThe Greeks, especially those who would be thought adepts in mystic theology, ran after fantastic allegories .", "(archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. \n1694, John Strype, Memorials of The Most Reverend Father in God, Thomas Cranmer, Appendix page 68 \nAt which time he told me, he would to London that week, and so to Oxford.\n1724, Daniel Defoe, Roxana, Penguin p.107:\nHe sat as one astonish'd, a good-while, looking at me, without speaking a Word, till I came quite up to him, kneel'd on one Knee to him, and almost whether he would or no, kiss'd his Hand .\n1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:'I thank thee, oh Ayesha,' I replied, with as much dignity as I could command, 'but if there be such a place as thou dost describe, and if in this strange place there may be found a fiery virtue that can hold off Death when he comes to pluck us by the hand, yet would I none of it.'", "(obsolete) Wished, desired (something). " ] }, { "mean": "A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.", "submean": [ "Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another. \nIf I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.\n1846, \"A New Sentimental Journey\", Blackwoods Magazine, vol.LX, no.372:\nIf I could fly, I would away to those realms of light and warmth – far, far away in the southern clime .\n2010, The Guardian, 26 February:\nWarnock admitted it would be the ideal scenario if he received a Carling Cup winners' medal as well as an England call-up .", "Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.\nI would love to come and visit.\nLook at that yummy cake! I would eat that all up!\n2008, Mark Cocker, \"Country Diary\", The Guardian, 3 November:\nIt's a piece of old folklore for which I would love to find hard proof.", "Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc. \nI would ask you all to sit down.\nI would imagine that they have already left.\n2009, Nick Snow, The Rocket's Trail, p.112:\n“Those trials are being run by the American army so surely you must have access to the documents?” “Well, yeah, you’d think.”\n2010, Terry Pratchett, \"My case for a euthanasia tribunal\", The Guardian, 2 February:\nDeparting on schedule with the help of a friendly doctor was quite usual. Does that still apply? It would seem so.", "Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.\nIt's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I would write and complain.", "Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.\nHe's very security-conscious, so he would have remembered to lock the door.\nThey would be arriving in London round about now.", "Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? \nWould you pass the salt, please?", "(chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of \"if only\". \n1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :KING HENRYThou dost not wish more help from England, coz?WESTMORELANDGod’s will, my liege, would you and I alone,Without more help, could fight this royal battle!\n1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, , 1928, →OCLC:I presently wished, would that I had been in their clothes! would that I had been born Peter! would that I had been born John!\n1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:I would she had retained her original haughtiness of disposition, or that I had a larger share of Front-de-Bœuf's thrice-tempered hardness of heart!\n1912, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated by F. C. Conybeare (Loeb Classical Library), 8.16:\nBut as the youth increased their annoyance by declaring that the goddess was quite right, because the Emperor was Archon Eponym of the city of Athens, he said: \"Would that he also presided the Panathenaic festival.\"", "(chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something). \nc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :What dost thou professe? What would’st thou with vs?" ] } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.\n1996, Fred Shoemaker, Extraordinary Golf: The Art of the Possible, page 88:When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.\n2010, Shushona Novos, The Personal Universal: A Guidebook for Spiritual Evolution, page 395:Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "could\nshould\nAppendix:English modal verbs\nAppendix:English tag questions\n Modal verbs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia \n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=wouldoldid=71215653\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms inherited from Old EnglishEnglish terms derived from Old EnglishEnglish 1-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksRhymes:English/ʊdRhymes:English/ʊd/1 syllableEnglish non-lemma formsEnglish verb formsEnglish terms with usage examplesEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish terms with archaic sensesEnglish terms with obsolete sensesEnglish transitive verbsEnglish control verbsEnglish lemmasEnglish nounsEnglish countable nounsEnglish auxiliary verb formsEnglish auxiliary verbsEnglish defective verbsEnglish irregular simple past formsEnglish irregular verbsEnglish modal verbsHidden categories: Requests for translations into BulgarianRequests for translations into GeorgianRequests for translations into Turkish\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\t
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