Term Gallery logo

Meanings of wanna-be in English

Person, who wants to be more than he or she is.

Synonyms
Examples for "pseudo"
Examples for "pseudo"
1
Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudo-science and speak up, he said.
The Irish Times
2
But the true hunters, too, know that this pseudo-hunting is second best.
The Guardian
3
Kinetic and equilibrium data follow pseudo-second order and Langmuir isotherm model, respectively.
Pubmed
4
The pseudo-second-order kinetic model provided the best correlation to the experimental results.
Pubmed
5
The kinetic studies indicated that the kinetic data followed the pseudo-second-order model.
Pubmed
1
It's not that the wannabe PM doesn't believe in equality or opportunity.
The Daily Telegraph
2
Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
Wired
3
Every other Republican presidential wannabe is at 4 per cent or lower.
The Irish Times
4
All these wannabe writers are all in competition with each other, right?
Pasta Imperfect
5
IGNITING a flare is a risk worth taking for a wannabe hooligan.
News.com.au
Usage of wanna-be in English
1
Every wanna-be and his dog would start messing around with the university's modem account.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
2
In the opening scenes, a group of wanna-be-bad boys accost him on a subway and try to grab his hooch.
Reuters
3
This puts great strain on her homelife with partner Ciaran, a wanna-be novelist, who spends time daily in friend Katie's bookshop.
The Irish Times
4
Bowen fielded occasional phone calls on his voice line from wanna-be hackers trying to pry open the door to the Inner Sanctum.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
5
Wanna-be hackers had trouble getting into it because of the way X.25 networks were billed.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
6
"But the campaign is the reason for Madlyn's disappearance," said the I-wanna-be-the-mayor.
For whom the minivan rolls: an aaron tucker mystery
7
Two fans from the standard selection remained in the mall bookstore: a balding Thirty-Something Exec and an overweight Commando-Wanna-be.
The Sandman Book of Dreams
8
"Not everyone dresses like that, just the nusses and the wanna-be nusses."
Escape
9
"Uh, thanks." The Commando-Wanna-be looked at the books piled on the cloth-covered card table in front of Confry.
The Sandman Book of Dreams