Definition of Wish

Wish To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker. To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward. To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate. To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of. Desire; eager desire; longing. Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation. A thing desired; an object of desire. Related Definitions: After, Against, An, Any, Attribute, Behalf, Cal, Concerning, Confidence, Desire, Desired, Disposition, Down, Eager, Express, Expression, Favor, For, Frame, Hanker, Have, Hence, Imprecate, Imprecation, In, Invocation, Invoke, Long, Longing, Mind, Object, Of, One, Or, Petition, Recommend, Request, Seek, Thing, To, Toward, Yearning

Wish Quotations The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. Mother Teresa It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. Mother Teresa Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Thomas Jefferson I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. Thomas Jefferson The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. Tony Robbins Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington

Wish Translations wish in Afrikaans is verlang, wil wish in Dutch is verkiezen, begeren, trek hebben in wish in Finnish is tahtoa, haluta wish in Italian is voto wish in Latin is votum, desiderium, cupio, voluntas wish in Portuguese is desejar, querer, desejo, anseio wish in Spanish is deseo, voluntad, desear, tener