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well-seen

well-seen adjective: having seen a lot; accomplished, experienced.

Adjective

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

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) Having seen a lot; accomplished, experienced.
    • All sixe well seene in armes, and prou'd in many a fight1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5
    • May it please your grace to take note of a gentleman, well seen, deeply read, and throughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all sallads and pot-herbs whatsoever.1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene i

Forms of well-seen

comparativemore well-seen
superlativemost well-seen

Questions about well-seen

What does well-seen mean?
Well-seen means having seen a lot; accomplished, experienced.
What part of speech is well-seen?
Well-seen is an adjective.

Words near well-seen in the dictionary

  1. well-rested
  2. well-room
  3. well-rooms
  4. well-rounded
  5. well-run
  6. well-seen
  7. well-served
  8. well-set
  9. well-settled
  10. well-shaped
  11. well-sinker

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