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well found

well found is the alternative form of well-found.

Meaning of well-found

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
  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

Forms of well found

comparativemore well found
superlativemost well found

Questions about well found

What is well found the alternative form of?
Well found is the alternative form of well-found.

Words near well found in the dictionary

  1. well duh
  2. well end
  3. well fed
  4. well firmed
  5. well flowering
  6. well found
  7. well heeled
  8. well horned
  9. well hung
  10. well I never
  11. well in good

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