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well-found

well-found adjective: well maintained and fully stocked and equipped.

Adjective

well-found (comparative more well-found, superlative most well-found)

  1. Well maintained and fully stocked and equipped.
    • We grieve to see paupers, and such like, arriving from abroad; but when we behold a body of intelligent and well-found emigrants like these, arrived on our shores, we rejoice to extend to them the honest hand of welcome.2000, Michael Price, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Boston's Immigrants: 1840-1925, →ISBN
    • The Nicholas is a well-found ship, and with a nice clean hull.2009, Tim Severin, The Adventures of Hector Lynch, Part 3: Sea Robber, →ISBN
  2. Welcome; appreciated.
    • Having determin'd of the Vosces and To send for Titus Lartius, it remains, As the main point of this our after-meeting, To gratify his noble service that Hath thus stood for his country: therefore, Most reverend and grave elders, to desire please you, The present consul, and last general In our...1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • These stories, however, from their various sources appear to prove, so far as such mystic records can, that the Puans—Win-e-ba-goes—have a well-found antiquity at least.1889, The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal - Volume 11, page 243

Examples of well-found in a sentence

  • To leave his kingdom well-found and strong—that is a King's work.2011, Hilda Lewis, Wife to the Bastard, →ISBN:
  • Although it is more burdensome to handle than a Bermudan rig, a well-found gaff rig copes with heavy weather at least as capably as its triangular equivalent.2016, Tom Cunliffe, Hand, Reef and Steer: Traditional Sailing Skills for Classic Boats, →ISBN:
  • These contrast with a well-found orange in Elizabeth's drapery.1902, House Beautiful - Volumes 11-12, page 37:

Forms of well-found

comparativemore well-found
superlativemost well-found
alternative formwellfound
alternative formwell found

Questions about well-found

What does well-found mean?
Well-found means well maintained and fully stocked and equipped.
How do you use well-found in a sentence?
To leave his kingdom well-found and strong—that is a King's work.
What part of speech is well-found?
Well-found is an adjective.

Words near well-found in the dictionary

  1. well-formed formula
  2. well-formed formulae
  3. well-formed formulas
  4. well-formedness
  5. well-formedness rules
  6. well-found
  7. well-founded
  8. well-foundedness
  9. well-furnished
  10. well-gowned
  11. well-groomed

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