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all's well that ends well

all's well that ends well proverb: a happy ending makes up for everything that has happened before.

Proverb

all's well that ends well

  1. A happy ending makes up for everything that has happened before.

all's well that ends well meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Malay

all's well that ends well in Hindi

A happy ending makes up for everything that has gone before...
अंत भला तो सब भला ant bhalā to sab bhalā

all's well that ends well in Bengali

A happy ending makes up for everything that has gone before...
সব ভাল তার শেষ ভাল যার śobo bhal tar śeś bhal jar

all's well that ends well in Malay

A happy ending makes up for everything that has gone before...
yang baik akhirnya baik juga

Origin of all's well that ends well

Often believed to be from the title of William Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well. More likely attributed to John Heywood (c. 1497 – c. 1580), who wrote plays for the royal court from the early 1530s onwards, some sixty years before Shakespeare made his way in the Elizabethan theatre. Although his book of proverbs was the first to use this phrasing, it originates even further back. In 1381, in J. R. Lumby’s Chronicon Henrici Knighton, the line ‘If the ende be wele, than is alle wele.’ seems to be a more likely origin.

Questions about all's well that ends well

What does all's well that ends well mean?
All's well that ends well means a happy ending makes up for everything that has happened before.
What is all's well that ends well in Hindi?
All's well that ends well in Hindi is अंत भला तो सब भला (ant bhalā to sab bhalā). See All's well that ends well meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is all's well that ends well?
All's well that ends well is a proverb.

Words near all's well that ends well in the dictionary

  1. all'antica
  2. all's
  3. all's fair in love and war
  4. all's fish that comes to the net
  5. all's one
  6. all's well that ends well
  7. all-
  8. all-a-mort
  9. All-America
  10. All-American
  11. all-Americanness

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