Would

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express desire or intent: She said she would meet us at the corner.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express a wish: Would that we had gone with you!
  • auxiliary-verb. Used after a statement of desire, request, or advice: I wish you would stay.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to make a polite request: Would you go with me?
  • auxiliary-verb. Used in the main clause of a conditional statement to express a possibility or likelihood: If I had enough money, I would buy a car. We would have gone to the beach, had the weather been good. See Usage Note at if.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express presumption or expectation: That would be Steve at the door.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to indicate uncertainty: He would seem to be getting better.
  • auxiliary-verb. Used to express repeated or habitual action in the past: Every morning we would walk in the garden.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. As a past-tense form of will.
  • v. As a modal verb, the subjunctive of will.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imperative. Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d will.
  • n. See 2d weld.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Preterit and past subjunctive of will.
  • Word Usage
    "But I would sure like to know who he * would* endorse."
    Verb Form
    woulding   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    will    weld   
    Verb Stem
    will   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hood    Wood    could    good    goode    hood    misunderstood    should    stood    understood   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shall    should    can    might    could    ought    did    do    why    dare