'Would-be' definitions:

Definition of 'would-be'

(from WordNet)

adjective

Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition [syn: manque, would-be(a)]

Definition of 'Would-be'

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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