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well-built en · ADJ

Etymology

From well + built.

Meanings

1. Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.
   • The basics of a well-built garden 1978, Ogden Tanner, Garden Construction, page 7:
   • It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way). 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 39:
2. Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.
   • A well-built teenage boy in a soiled black leather studded vest and black jeans was crouched in the far corner of the cellar, waiting for us. 2002, James Patterson, Violets Are Blue, page 180:
   • James Lassiter was forty years old, a well-built, ruggedly handsome man in the prime of his life, in the best of health. 1998, Nora Roberts, The Reef, page 3:

Forms

Translations (19)

nn velbygd (well constructed) · nb velbygd (well constructed) · as আটিল (well constructed) · uk міцни́й (well-built physique) · uk га́рної стату́ри (well-built physique) · ota عمران (well constructed) · as ওখ-পাখ (well-built physique) · nb velbygd (well-built physique) · bg добре сложен (well-built physique) · nn velbygd (well-built physique) · uk ставни́й (well-built physique) · nb velbygget (well-built physique) · es maceteado (well-built physique) · uk до́бре збудо́ваний (well constructed) · da velbygget (well constructed) · es fornido (well-built physique) · nb velbygget (well constructed) · el εύρωστος (well-built physique) · el γεροδεμένος (well-built physique)