would

verb

1. Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   “On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.”

2. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   “On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.”

3. Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)

   “When we were younger, we would cycle out to the beach most summer Sundays.”

4. Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.

   “I asked her to stay in with me, but she would go out.”

noun

1. Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

interjection

1. Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.