noun desire; eager desire; longing.
2. wish ·noun a thing desired; an object of desire.
3. wish ·noun expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.
4. wish ·vt to recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
5. wish ·vt to have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
6. wish ·vt to desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
7. wish ·vt 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.