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English Dictionary: would-be by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
would-be
adj
  1. unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition [syn: manque, would-be(a)]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Would-be \Would"-be`\, a.
      Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a
      would-be poet
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