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WELL TO DO

Definition: WELL TO DO

WELL TO DO

1. Well off; prosperous; -- used also adjectively. ``The class well to do in the world.'' --J. H. Newman.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: WELL TO DO

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prosperity

Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge.

Wealth

Adjective: wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: WELL TO DO

English words defined with "WELL TO DO": Well to live. (references)

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Speeches: WELL TO DO

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

William H. Taft

1909-1913The exercise of political franchises by those of this race who are intelligent and well to do will be acquiesced in, and the right to vote will be withheld only from the ignorant and irresponsible of both races.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: WELL TO DO

Language Translations for "WELL TO DO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

në gjendje të mirë ekonomike (in easy, in good circumstances, well off), i pasur (affluent, exuberant, fruity, luxuriant, mellow, opulent, pay, podded, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well off), i kamur (heeled, moneyed, propertied, well heeled, well off). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏موسر (affluent, moneyed, opulent, rich, wealthy, well heeled), ‏غني (affluent, in the money, loaded, mean, moneyed, opulent, plushy, rich, spacious, substantial, wealthy, well off), ‏ثري (fat, moneyed, opulent, plushy, posh, privileged, prosperous, rich, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

състоятелен (cogent, podded, substantial, well off), заможен (fat, fixed, forehanded, propertied, rich, warm, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zámožný (moneyed, opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well off). (various references)

   

French

  

riche (wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-off), nantis, aisé (well-to-do). (various references)

   

German

  

wohlhabend (abundant, affluent, comfortably off, in easy circumstances, moneyed, opulent, prosperous, richly, wealthy, well off, well-to-do), reicht (reaches), betucht, bemittelt (well off), behäbig (complacent, portly, sedans, solid, stolid). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλούσιοσ (abundant in, moneyed, opulent, rich, wealthy), εύποροσ (resourceful, thrifty, well off). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

אמי" (affluent, well heeled, well off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tehetõs (well off), jómódú (better off, to be well off, wealthy, well doing, well heeled, well-off, well-to-do). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

berduit (wealthy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricco (abounding, abundant, affluent, empire, full, loaded, mellow, moneyed, pursy, realm, rich, rich person, richer, rife, sumptuous, valuable, wealthier, wealthily, wealthy, well-off), facoltoso (wealthy), benestante (prosperous, wealthy, well off), agiato (comfortable, easy, well heeled), abbiente (propertied). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellway otay oday

   

Romanian

  

prosper (bonanza, flourishing, palmy, prosperous, thrifty, thriving, wealthy), cuprins (area, compass, comprised, content, contents, expanse, extent, field, included, inflamed, region, stretch, summary, surface, well off), chivernisit (well-in), chiabur (kulak, well off), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, moneyed, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well-off), avut (had, moneyed, pecunious, propertied, prosperous, rich, wealthy, well off), înstãrit (circumstanced, in easy circumstances, in good circumstances, independent, rich, warm, wealthy, well off). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

состоятельный (opulent, podded, prosperous, substantial, wealthy, well fixed, well off, well-to-do), зажиточный (well off, well-to-do). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bogat (loaded, money: in the money, moneyed, opulent, rich, wealthy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

holgado (baggy, easy, full, loose, roomy, spacious), fácil (cushy, easy, effortless, facile, glib, light, loose, painless, ready, simple), adinerado (moneyed, propertied, wealthy, well off). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

välbeställd, välbärgad (comfortable, comfy, forehanded, made, well off, well-off, well-to-do), tät (close, compact, dense, frequent, head, loaded, murky, proof, thick, tight, vanguard, well heeled), burgen (affluent), bärgad. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

varlıklı (affluent, brownstone, propertied, rich, wealthy, well off, well situated, well-endowed), tuzu kuru, hali vakti yerinde (in good circumstances, well off, well situated, well-endowed). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

квітучий (blooming, blowing, efflorescent, flourishing, flowered, flowering, full blown, pert, thrifty, wholesome), заможний (opulent, propertied, prosperous, silk stocking, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, worth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WELL TO DO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-o-o-t-w"

-1 letter: woolled.

-2 letters: dewool, looted, toledo, tolled, tooled, wooled.

-3 letters: dowel, dwell, dwelt, looed, lowed, owlet, toled, towed, towel, wooed.

-4 letters: dell, delt, dole, doll, dolt, dote, lewd, lode, loot, lowe, oleo, owed, tell, toed, told, tole, toll, tool, weld, well, welt, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: del, dew, doe, dol, dot, dow, eld, ell, led, let.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-l-l-o-o-t-w"
 

+4 letters: otherworldly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Speeches
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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