How to pronounce“wannabe”in English
nounplenty of, uh, politicians doing, which is the kind of, you know, the student debating and and if you like the sort of training ground for a wannabe, uh, a
wannabe politician, even if perhaps some of those political ambitions, um, might have been might have been there. He met his wife at, uh, university, so they've
been together for, what, 35 odd, um, odd years. And and then after that,
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Definitions of “wannabe”
Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
“Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.”
Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
“Bigger, mongrelly and black, he was clearly a Doberman wannabe.”
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