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well
English
- 🔊 in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury“appears to be entirely well”
- 🔊 a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- 🔊 an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
- 🔊 an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- 🔊 a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- 🔊 an abundant source“she was a well of information”
- 🔊 (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')“the children behaved well”
- 🔊 without unusual distress or resentment“took the joke well”
- 🔊 indicating high probability“I might well do it”
- 🔊 thoroughly or completely“The problem is well understood”
- 🔊 favorably“their neighbors spoke well of them”
- 🔊 to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree“the project was well underway”
- 🔊 in financial comfort“They live well”
- 🔊 in a manner affording benefit or advantage“she married well”
- 🔊 to a great extent or degree“I'm afraid the film was well over budget”
- 🔊 with skill or in a pleasing manner“she dances well”
- 🔊 with prudence or propriety“You would do well to say nothing more”
- 🔊 with great or especially intimate knowledge“we knew them well”
- 🔊 (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully“a book well worth reading”
- 🔊 come up, as of a liquid“Tears well in her eyes”
Spanish
- 🔊 y well
- 🔊 cheque well, fine, okay
- 🔊 hay que ver well, just look at that!
- 🔊 sobre ruedas well, smoothly; swimmingly