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wellfound

wellfound 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 wellfound

comparativemore wellfound
superlativemost wellfound

Questions about wellfound

What is wellfound the alternative form of?
Wellfound is the alternative form of well-found.

Words near wellfound in the dictionary

  1. wellfields
  2. Wellfleet
  3. Wellford
  4. wellformed
  5. wellformedness
  6. wellfound
  7. wellfounded
  8. wellful
  9. wellfuls
  10. Wellhausen's hypothesis
  11. wellhead

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