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well met en · ADJ

Etymology

A shortening of It is well that we have met.

Meanings

1. (archaic, not-comparable) Welcome, greeted.
   • Clown: Here comes Sir Oliver: Sir Oliver Mar-text, you are well met. c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act I, scene IX:
   • Mother of God! but we are well met here, in this wilderness, among the savages. 1902, Emerson Hough, The Mississippi Bubble, →ISBN, pages 280–281:
   • "Lord Vergoin, you are well met. I trust my poor table will not too gravely disappoint you." 2009, Kage Baker, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN, page 109:
2. (not-comparable) Greeted by a person of high respect or social status.
   • Lady Merlumina?! You were well met. She is an ancestor of mine.
3. (not-comparable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, met.

well met en · INTJ

Etymology

A shortening of It is well that we have met.

Meanings

1. (archaic) A greeting.
   • Bardolph: Well met, Corporal Nim. c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act II, scene I:
   • " Well met ! Well met ! Thou'lt soon be set Before the ale-cup flowing." 1833, Unknown translator, “The Death Song of Regner Lodbrog”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 33, page 915:
   • "Ho, Fios," Verne said as he raised a hand in greeting. "Well met, Master Verne," the smallest of the dogs replied. 2011, James A Owen, The Dragon's Apprentice, →ISBN, page 120: