verb

• (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
  "I want you as a friend, not a foe."
• (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
  "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."
• (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."
• (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
  "You can leave if you want."

noun

• (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• (countable) Lack, absence, deficiency. [(often) with of]
  "She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers."
• (uncountable) Poverty.
  "Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want."
• (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

noun

• (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
  "Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?"