well-wisher

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who hopes for and expresses support for another person's or cause's success or welfare

   Dozens of well-wishers sent cards to the family after the announcement.

A late sixteenth-century compound of well, in its adverbial sense 'favorably, in a good way,' + wisher. It names someone who wishes another well; it is unrelated to well in the sense of a shaft or spring of water.

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