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What does well mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word well? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
  2. (manner) Completely, fully.
  3. (degree) To a significant degree.
  4. (degree, Britain, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
  5. In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
Adjective
  1. In good health.
  2. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
Interjection
  1. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
  2. An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
  3. An exclamation of indignance.
  4. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
  5. Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
  6. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
Noun
  1. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
  2. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
  3. A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
  4. (figuratively) A source of supply.
  5. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
  6. (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
  7. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
  8. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
  9. (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
  10. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
  11. (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
  12. A well drink.
  13. (video game) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
  14. (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
  2. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.
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