Usually means: Expresses possibility, intention, or condition.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word would:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. would: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. would: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. would: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. would: Collins English Dictionary
  5. would: Vocabulary.com
  6. would, would: Wordnik
  7. would: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. would: Wiktionary
  9. would: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. would: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. would: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. would: Dictionary.com
  13. would: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. would: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Would (Alice in Chains song), Would, Would: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Would: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. would: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. would: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. would: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. would: Free Dictionary
  21. would: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. would: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. WOuld, Would: Wordnik

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. would: Legal dictionary
  2. would: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. would: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. would: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Would: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
verb:  Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
verb:  Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
verb:  Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
verb:  (archaic) Wanted to.
verb:  (archaic) Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses.
verb:  (obsolete) Wished, desired (something).
verb:  A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.
verb:  Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
verb:  Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
verb:  Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
verb:  Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
verb:  Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
verb:  Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
verb:  Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
verb:  (chiefly archaic) Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only".
verb:  (chiefly archaic, transitive or control verb) Might desire; wish (something).
noun:  Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

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