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Meanings of wannabe in English

Portuguese
pretendente
Spanish
pretendiente

An ambitious and aspiring young person.

pretendente

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

Synonyms
Examples for "pseudo"
Examples for "pseudo"
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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
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...
Usage of wannabe in English
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
6
Ines returns in the form of a wannabe Instagram influencer named Jessika.
News.com.au
7
And for the wannabe movers and shakers who pass through the city.
The Guardian
8
We sail on past some wannabe punk types and slide on in.
Freaks and revelations
9
You can be a wannabe star for a moment, then move on.
The Guardian
10
Big Hat, No Cattle Texas expression used to dismiss a cowboy wannabe.
Wired
11
And there were a lot of wannabe Mr. Parkers in between them.
Love- from his point of view!
12
But she has gotten over it because wannabe actors deserve love too.
News.com.au
13
Client had lost a kid or something to some half-assed wannabe warlock.
Cold Days
14
I was a theatrical wannabe, taking classes and running around to auditions.
The burglar who traded ted williams
15
GarageBandalso makes even the most musically challenged wannabe sound like a pro.
The Irish Times
16
I met his mom, his dad, and his sixteen-year-old Madonna-wannabe sister, Alanah.
On Edge
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Translations for wannabe
Portuguese
pretendente
Wannabe through the time
Wannabe across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Rare