'Would-be' definitions:
Definition of '
would-be
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From:
WordNet
adjective
Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition [syn:
manque
, would-be(a)]
Definition of '
Would-be
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From:
GCIDE
Would-be \Would"-be`\, a. Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet. [1913 Webster]
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