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hail-fellow-well-met

adj · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Sociable, friendly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publications edition, →ISBN, page 22, Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all; Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
  • N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, →ISBN, page 60, "You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

Alternative spelling of hail fellow well met: a sociable, friendly person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

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3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

heartily friendly and congenial

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: comradely, hail-fellow

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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