Usually means: Essential items or qualities desired.
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  1. desiderata: Merriam-Webster
  2. desiderata: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desiderata: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desiderata: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desiderata: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desiderata, desiderata: Wordnik
  7. desiderata: Wiktionary
  8. desiderata: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Desiderata, desiderata: Dictionary.com
  10. desiderata: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Desiderata (Les Crane album), Desiderata (Madder Mortem album), Desiderata (disambiguation), Desiderata: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Desiderata: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. desiderata: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Desiderata: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. desiderata: FreeDictionary.org
  16. desiderata: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. desiderata: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Desiderata)

▸ noun:  "Desiderata"(Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann.
▸ noun:  "Desiderata" is an early 1920s poem by Max Ehrmann.
▸ noun:  the fourth studio album by Norwegian metal band Madder Mortem, released on 24 April 2006 (in Norway on 27 March 2006).
▸ noun:  a 1971 album by Les Crane with music by Broadway composer Fred Werner and concept and various lyrics by David C. Wilson.

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want, need, yearn, crave, desire, long, pining, thirst, more...

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