Well-found

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Well maintained and fully stocked and equipped..

Definitions by Sense

1. Well maintained and fully stocked and equipped.
2. Welcome; appreciated.

Example Sentences

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.

The Nicholas is a well-found ship, and with a nice clean hull.

To leave his kingdom well-found and strong—that is a King's work.

He said the 'ouse was well-found. Him with his well-found 'ouse! They're bound to give you what you need, but if you don't mind expense...

Although it is more burdensome to handle than a Bermudan rig, a well-found gaff rig copes with heavy weather at least as capably as its triangular equivalent.

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 well-found successes, to report A little of the worthy work perform'd By Caius Marcius Coriolanus, whom We met here both to thank and to remember With honors like himself.

These stories, however, from their various sources appear to prove, so far as such mystic records can, that the Puans—Win-e-ba-goes—have a well-found antiquity at least.

These contrast with a well-found orange in Elizabeth's drapery.

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• more well-found
• most well-found
• wellfound
• well found

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