English Dictionary |
WISH LIST
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does wish list mean?
• WISH LIST (noun)
The noun WISH LIST has 1 sense:
1. a list of events that you wish would occur
Familiarity information: WISH LIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A list of events that you wish would occur
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("wish list" is a kind of...):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
Context examples
"Secular variation has been on the wish list of planetary scientists for decades," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"A spared body only goes twenty-four hours further that another" (Breton proverb)
"Never give advice in a crowd." (Arabic proverb)
"It's not only cooks that wear long knives." (Dutch proverb)