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adjective

• In good health.

  Example: I had been sick, but now I'm well.

• Good, content.

  Example: “How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”

• Prudent; good; well-advised.

adverb

• (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

  Example: He does his job well.

• (manner) Completely, fully.

  Example: We’re well beat now.

• (degree) To a significant degree.

  Example: That author is well known.

• (degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).

• In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

interjection

• Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.

  Example: “I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”

• An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).

  Example: Well, well, well, what do we have here?

• An exclamation of indignance.

  Example: Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!

• Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.

  Example: It was a bit... well... too loud.

• Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.

  Example: “So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.”

• (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting

  Example: Well lads. How's things?

noun

• A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

• A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.

• A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.

  Example: Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.

• A source of supply.

• A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.

• The cockpit of a sailboat.

• 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.

• A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.

• A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

• An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.

• The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.

• The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.

• A well drink.

  Example: They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.

• The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.

• In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.

verb

• To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

• To have something seep out of the surface.

  Example: Her eyes welled with tears.