Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A good or favorable wish; a benevolent desire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wish of happiness.
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Examples
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An impressively stellar roster of guests - most of them appearing live - dropped by to well-wish on the final edition of King's 25-year-old nightly talk show.
A star-studded, but still somewhat muted, farewell for 'Larry King Live' Tom Shales 2010
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The result so far is a collection of sterile well-wish videos and quotidian clips of home life.
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Someone who loves me sent me this highbrow Easter well-wish.
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This slightly absurd well-wish had become ubiquitous, completely obligatory, and because of that, completely meaningless.
Friendly Atheist 2010
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This slightly absurd well-wish had become ubiquitous, completely obligatory, and because of that, completely meaningless.
Planet Atheism 2010
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May Steve Jobs live to be 120 - Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Technology This is a well-wish for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, recovering after a liver transplant required following complications from a form of pancreatic cancer.
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I take it as a friendly well-wish, not as a rude presumption that I celebrate the day as the birth Jesus Christ.
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