well – English noun declension

English noun forms of well

Noun: well
Singularwell
Pluralwells

Sample Sentences

  • The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John iv:11:]
  • By the end of the tenth century, Edith's humility had inspired a cult of holy wells in Kent, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire. [1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 170:]
  • Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well. [1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:]
  • Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
  • Four fixed windows are fitted on the corridor side of the body and nine louvred air intakes on the opposite side. Rubber water drainage pipes are taken from these, and from the pantograph roof well, down the inside of the body. [1960 February 26, “High-Voltage Electric Locomotive for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 125:]
  • Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 32:]
  • A well of serious thought and pure, / Too deep for earthly light. [1827, [John Keble], “St. Philip and St. James”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 130:]
  • News of the deaths of James Baldwin and Richard Bruce Nugent in 1987 seemed to signal the death of an era — an era which produced works of monumental significance for Black lesbians and gay men; works such as Giovanni's Room, Just Above My Head, and "Smoke, Lillies, and Jade." As a fledgling Black gay writer, this was the well from which I drew succor. [1989 February 5, Craig G. Harris, “Your Life's All In Your Dreams And Your Dreams Are All In Your Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 9:]
  • They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
  • Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. […] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well. [2005, James Paul Gee, Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul:]
  • You can reposition the order of documents in the window by clicking and dragging the tabs, or you can drag a tab out of the well and view a document in its own floating window. [2011, Ted LoCascio, Using Adobe InDesign CS5, Enhanced Edition, pages 2-12:]
  • You should now have three documents open with their tabs showing in the tab well (this refers to the row of tabs for each open document in the editor), as shown in the following screenshot: […] [2016, Jeff Martin, Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook, page 15:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English welle, from Old English wielle (“well”), from Proto-West Germanic *wallijā, from Proto-Germanic *wallijǭ (“well, swirl, wave”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn; wind; roll”).
2. Cognate with West Frisian wel (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German Low German Well (“well”), German Welle (“wave”), Danish væld (“well; spring”), Swedish väl (“well”), Icelandic vella (“boiling; bubbling; eruption”). See: Middle English Nouns 'welle', Old English Nouns 'wielle', Dutch Nouns 'wel', German Nouns 'Welle', Icelandic Nouns 'vella'.