Definition/Meaning of well

• English - Adverb: well (comparative better, superlative best) Accurately , competently , satisfactorily . He does his job well . My RV runs well on diesel. Completely , fully . We’re well beat now. I prefer a well done steak. To a significant degree . That author is well known. A monument well worth seeing (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier). 2003, Steve Eddy, Empower, Book…
• English - Adjective: well (comparative better or weller, superlative best or wellest) In good health . I've been sick, but now I'm well . I've always been a healthy, fit woman, but right now I really don't feel very well . Highly satisfactory Everything well with you? Good , content . “How are you?” — “I'm well , thank you!” c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William…
• English - Interjection: well Used as a discourse marker . “So, what have you been doing?” “ Well , we went for a picnic; and then it started raining, so we came home early.” 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain) Well, I am sorry. — It’s okay, Anna. Used as a discourse marker .: Used as a hedge . “I didn't like the music.” “ Well , I thought it was good.” “The car is broken.” “ Well , we could walk to the movies…
• English - Noun: well (plural wells) A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water , oil , natural gas or other fluids. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John iv:11: The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium,…
• English - Verb: well (third-person singular simple present wells, present participle welling, simple past and past participle welled) (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. 1824, William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn: [Yon spring] wells softly forth. 1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics,…