well

  1. Adverb.  (context, manner) Accurately, competently.
  2. Adverb.  (context, manner) Completely, fully.
  3. Adverb.  (context, degree) To a significant degree.
  4. Adverb.  (context, degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
  5. Adjective.  In good health.
  6. Adjective.  (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
  7. Interjection.  (colloquial) Used to acknowledge a statement or situation (short form for "that is well").
  8. Interjection.  (colloquial, dated) An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
  9. Interjection.  (colloquial) Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
  10. Interjection.  (colloquial) Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
  11. Noun.  A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
  12. Noun.  A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally, a spring.
  13. Noun.  A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
  14. Noun.  (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
  15. Noun.  (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
  16. Noun.  A well drink.
  17. Noun.  (video games) The playfield of the video game ''Tetris''.
  18. Verb.  To seep out of the surface.
  19. Verb.  To have something seep out of the surface.

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