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welladay

welladay is the variant form of wellaway.

Meaning of wellaway

Interjection

  1. (archaic, literary) Expression of sadness, regret, remorse, etc., alas, "woe"!
    • Crying with pitteous voice, and count'nance wan; / Ah well away, most noble Lords, how can / Your cruell eyes endure so pitteous sight [...]?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

welladay (plural welladays)

  1. A cry of "welladay".

Forms of welladay

pluralwelladays

Questions about welladay

What does welladay mean?
Welladay means a cry of "welladay".
What is welladay the variant form of?
Welladay is the variant form of wellaway.
What part of speech is welladay?
Welladay is a noun.
What is the plural of welladay?
The plural of welladay is welladays.

Words near welladay in the dictionary

  1. well-wishes
  2. well-wishing
  3. well-wishings
  4. well-wooded
  5. well-worn
  6. welladay
  7. welladays
  8. welladjusted
  9. wellah
  10. Welland
  11. Wellands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: welladay (page history and authors); wellaway (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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