well-wisher

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃə/    美 /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who extends good wishes, or expresses sympathy, to someone else.
    — [T]hose honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and raillery of their well-wishers and companions; that are pelted by men, women, and children, friends and foes, and in a word, stand as butts in conversation, for every one to shoot at that pleases.
  2. Someone who makes a wish at a wishing well. nonce-word,rare
    — They strolled on and passed a smiling man standing by the Village wishing well. "Well," said the well-wisher. Ah … must be the Village idiot.
  3. Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something. obsolete,rare
    — I never saw your chancellor, nor his chaplain. The latter has a good deal of learning, and is a well wisher to be an author: your chancellor is an excellent man.

词形变化

well-wishers plural well-wishers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
well-wish
相关词
well-wished well-wishing acquaintance benevolent Godspeed

词源

词源 1
From well (“in a desirable manner; so as one could wish”, adverb) + wisher.
词源 2
From well (“hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, etc.”) + wisher.
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