would-be
51would-be — {adj.} Aspiring. * /The Broadway casting offices are always full of would be actors./ …
52would — Weld Weld (w[e^]ld), n. [OE. welde; akin to Scot. wald, Prov. G. waude, G. wau, Dan. & Sw. vau, D. wouw.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) An herb ({Reseda luteola}) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer s broom;… …
53would-be — adjective Date: 1647 desiring, intending, professing, or having the potential to be < a would be actor > …
54would of — verb Eye dialect misspelling and mispronunciation of would have or wouldve …
55would-be — adj. Would be is used with these nouns: ↑actor, actress, ↑assassin, ↑buyer, ↑customer, ↑entrepreneur, ↑immigrant, ↑investor, ↑killer, ↑lover, ↑murderer, ↑parent, ↑ …
56would'ta — Mawdesley Glossary would you …
57would — [OE] Would goes back to wold , the Old English past tense of will. Its vowel is inherited from the Indo European variant *wol (as in German wollen ‘will, want’), rather than the *wel that produced the English present form will. Its use as an… …
58would-be — adj Aspiring. The Broadway casting offices are always full of would be actors …
59would-be — adjective desiring or aspiring to be a specified type of person: a would be actress …
60would-be — adjective would be actor/murderer etc someone who hopes to have a particular job or intends to do a particular thing …