"would like" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-would like.wav [Southern-England]
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  1. To want; to desire (used to form polite requests, suggestions, etc., followed by a noun [phrase] or infinitive) Synonyms: should like, would not mind
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  2. To want; to desire (used to form polite requests, suggestions, etc., followed by a noun [phrase] or infinitive)
    Used when placing an order, chiefly at a restaurant.
    Synonyms: should like, would not mind, get, let someone get
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to want; to desire): وَدَّ (wadda) (Arabic), ուզել (uzel) (note: conditional forms) (Armenian), ցանկանալ (cʻankanal) (note: conditional forms) (Armenian), (xiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), 想要 (xiǎngyào) (Chinese Mandarin), 願意 /愿意 (yuànyì) (Chinese Mandarin), chtít (Czech), willen (Dutch), zin hebben in (Dutch), zou willen (Dutch), zin hebben om te (Dutch), voli (Esperanto), conditional forms of haluta (Finnish), möchte (German), hätte gern (German), würde gern (German), θα ήθελα (tha íthela) (Greek), kér (Hungarian), szeretne (Hungarian), ætla að fá (english: polite requests) (Icelandic), langa í (Icelandic), langa (Icelandic), ætla (Icelandic), ba mhaith le (Irish), ចង់ (cɑŋ) (Khmer), sihtat (Northern Sami), vil gjerne (Norwegian), chcieć (note: politeness is expressed by conditional forms) [imperfective] (Polish), gostaria (Portuguese), avea vrea (note: with the conditional conjugation) (Romanian), хоте́ть (xotétʹ) (alt: politeness is expressed by adding бы (by) to the past tense forms, e.g. "я хоте́л(а) бы" - "I'd like" (m/f)) [imperfective] (Russian), жела́ть (želátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), vuré (note: in the conditional mood) (Sassarese), (a él) le gustaría (Spanish), (él) gustaría de (Spanish), skulle vilja ha (Swedish), skulle vilja (Swedish), ต้องการ (dtɔ̂ng-gaan) (Thai), бажа́ти (bažáty) (Ukrainian), muốn (Vietnamese)
Disambiguation of 'to want; to desire': 50 50
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      "sense": "to want; to desire",
      "word": "(a él) le gustaría"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "(él) gustaría de"
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      "sense": "to want; to desire",
      "word": "ต้องการ"
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