Want vs Ward - What's the difference?
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To wish for or to desire (something).
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* Dryden
To lack, not to have (something).
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* James Merrick
* Addison
(colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
(dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
* Ben Jonson
* Alexander Pope
(countable) A desire, wish, longing.
(countable, often, followed by of) Lack, absence.
* , King Henry VI Part 2 , act 4, sc. 8:
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(uncountable) Poverty.
* Jonathan Swift
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
* Paley
(UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
(archaic, or, obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xi:
Protection, defence.
# (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden .
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#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc. ).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
# Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
#* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), (w, Le Morte d'Arthur) , Book V:
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
# An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching and/or even from being able to locate said-protected premises
# (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
# (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A protected place.
# (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
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#* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 78:
# A section or subdivision of a prison.
# An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (UK) A division of a forest.
# (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
# A room in a hospital where patients reside.
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# A minor looked after by a guardian.
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An object used for guarding.
# The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
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#* 1893 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:
To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
* Spenser
To defend, to protect.
* Shakespeare
* 1603 , John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.3:
To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off .
* Daniel
* Addison
* I. Watts
To be vigilant; to keep guard.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
To act on the defensive with a weapon.
As proper nouns the difference between want and ward
is that want is a personification of want while ward is for a guard or watchman.want
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Alternative forms
* waunt (obsolete)Verb
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- 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.
- 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.
- Not what we wish, but what we want , / Oh, let thy grace supply!
- I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
- 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.
- You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want .
- For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find / What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb. SeeSynonyms
* (desire) set one's heart on, wish for, would like * (lack) be without * (require) need, be in need ofDerived terms
* I want to know * want-away * wanted * want for * wanting *Noun
(poverty)- [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.
- 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.
- Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want .
- Habitual superfluities become actual wants .
Derived terms
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*ward
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ward, from (etyl) . Cognate with German Wart.Noun
(en noun)- no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ward, warde, from (etyl) ; English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.Noun
(en noun)- the best ward of mine honour
- The assieged castle's ward / Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.
- For want of other ward , / He lifted up his hand, his front to guard.
- Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward , / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in
- So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde , surely to be kepte as noble presoners.
- I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward .
- It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.
- Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and thus I bore my point.
- Diocletian.
- With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.
- Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward .
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.
- The lock is mademore secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.
- With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward , where the pressure was applied.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) warden, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight / To ward the same.
- Tell him it was a hand that warded him / From a thousand dangers.
- they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.
- Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.
- The pointed javelin warded off his rage.
- It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
- They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward , / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].