To want something to happen, especially when it may be difficult or impossible. As a noun, it is the thing you hope for.
From Old English 'wȳscan', meaning 'to desire' or 'to wish.' It is related to German 'wünschen' with the same meaning.
We use 'wish' in grammar to talk about unreal or imaginary situations: 'I wish I were taller.' The word itself signals that what follows lives in the land of 'not true (yet).'
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