Definitions for Wells

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Wells Wells

Spelling: [welz]

IPA: /wɛlz/

Wells is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Wells (ellsw).

Definitions for Wells

noun

1. Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
2. H(erbert) G(eorge) 1866–1946, English novelist and historian.
3. Horace, 1815–48, U.S. dentist: pioneered use of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
4. Ida Bell (Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) 1862–1931, U.S. journalist and civil-rights leader.
5. a historic town in E Somersetshire, in SW England: cathedral.
6. well-being; good fortune; success:
7. a hole drilled or bored into the earth to obtain water, petroleum, natural gas, brine, or sulfur.
8. a spring or natural source of water.
9. an apparent reservoir or a source of human feelings, emotions, energy, etc.:
10. a container, receptacle, or reservoir for a liquid:
11. any sunken or deep, enclosed space, as a shaft for air or light, stairs, or an elevator, extending vertically through the floors of a building.
12. Nautical. a part of a weather deck between two superstructures, extending from one side of a vessel to the other. a compartment or enclosure around a ship's pumps to make them easily accessible and protect them from being damaged by the cargo.
13. a hollow compartment, recessed area, or depression for holding a specific item or items, as fish in the bottom of a boat or the retracted wheels of an airplane in flight.
14. any shaft dug or bored into the earth, as for storage space or a mine.

Idioms

1. as well, in addition; also; too: equally:
2. as well as, as much or as truly as; equally as:
3. leave well enough alone, avoid changing something that is satisfactory.

adverb

1. in a good or satisfactory manner:
2. thoroughly, carefully, or soundly:
3. in a moral or proper manner:
4. commendably, meritoriously, or excellently:
5. with propriety, justice, or reason:
6. adequately or sufficiently:
7. to a considerable extent or degree (often used in combination):
8. with great or intimate knowledge:
9. certainly; without doubt:
10. with good nature; without rancor:

adjective

1. in good health; sound in body and mind:
2. satisfactory, pleasing, or good:
3. proper, fitting, or gratifying:
4. in a satisfactory position; well-off:
5. like, of, resembling, from, or used in connection with a well.

interjection

1. (used to express surprise, reproof, etc.):
2. (used to introduce a sentence, resume a conversation, etc.):

verb (used with object)

1. to send welling up or forth:

verb (used without object)

1. to rise, spring, or gush, as water, from the earth or some other source (often followed by up, out, or forth):

Origin of Wells

before 900; Middle English, Old English wel(l) (adj. and adv.); cognate with Dutch wel, German wohl, Old Norse vel, Gothic waila

Examples for Wells

Apple, PetSmart, Wells Fargo, Marriott, and Delta also spoke out.

I mean to say, the three holes in the ground being three "Wells!"

What drinks from the brooks and Wells, and from the stones on the bank?

Wright approved one of the Wells after the operator agreed to bring it into compliance, according to the letter.

The pressure of the gas at the Wells is from 150 to 230 pounds to the square inch.

We think to march with the General this day to Wells, on his way homeward.

It also kills roadside trees, pollutes streams and Wells, and destroys gardens.

The bailout crybabies of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and all the rest are easy targets—and deserving ones, too.

Some threw their silver and pewter ware and other valuables into Wells.

That way the Wells could go into production and the operators could fix the problems later.