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Meaning of WOULD-BE

Pronunciation:  'wûd`bee

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Would"-be`\, a.
Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a
would-be poet
 

 

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