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Meaning of "hail-fellow-well-met" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hail-Fellow-Well-Met is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hail fellow well met

"Hail fellow well met" is a somewhat archaic English idiom used when referring to a person whose behavior is hearty, friendly and congenial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a 1589 quotation for this phrase as a friendly greeting. The OED also gives quotations for the related phrase "hail fellow", a greeting that apparently dates to medieval times. "Well met" appears to have been added to the phrase in the 16th century to intensify its friendliness. This additional term seems to derive from the concept of "good to meet you", and also from the meaning of "meet" as something literally the right size for a given situation. In modern English, the idiom is used as an exaggerated greeting or as a description of a personality type. The twentieth-century English novelist W. Somerset Maugham frequently used the term in his novels and short stories to describe male characters of a genial, sociable, and hard-drinking temperament.

Definition of hail-fellow-well-met in the English dictionary

The definition of hail-fellow-well-met in the dictionary is genial and familiar, esp in an offensive or ingratiating way.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET

haik
haiku
hail
Hail Mary
Haile Selassie
hailer
Hailsham of St Marylebone
hailshot
hailstone
hailstorm
Hailwood
haily
hain
hain´t

WORDS THAT END LIKE HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET

Ansermet
calumet
comet
crash helmet
cycle helmet
emmet
fumet
gourmet
grommet
guillemet
Halley´s Comet
helmet
Kamet
kismet
Mamet
met
pelmet
plummet
ramet
unmet

Synonyms and antonyms of hail-fellow-well-met in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hail-fellow-well-met» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hail-fellow-well-met

Translation of «hail-fellow-well-met» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET

Find out the translation of hail-fellow-well-met to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hail-fellow-well-met from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hail-fellow-well-met» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冰雹,老乡见老乡,充分满足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

granizo - - bien - se reunió compañero
570 millions of speakers

English

hail-fellow-well-met
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ओलों साथी अच्छी तरह से मुलाकात की
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حائل - التقى جيدا زميل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

град - молодец - хорошо встретили
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

granizo - companheiro de bem -met
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সৌহার্দ্যপূর্ণ সম্পর্কযুক্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grêle - compagnon de bien rencontré
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hail-fellow-well-met
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

plumpvertraulich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

雹-仲間は、よく会った
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우박 - 동료 - 잘 만났다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Becik-becik-ketemu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mưa đá - đồng nghiệp - cũng - gặp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விமர்சகர்களின் பாராட்டைப் பெற்றது-சக நன்கு சந்தித்தார்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गार-सह-सुप्रसिद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıkı fıkı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grandine - fellow -well met-
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grad - facet - dobrze spełnione
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

град - молодець - добре зустріли
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grindină - om - bine cunoscut ,
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χαλάζι - συναδέλφους - και -met
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hael - mede - goed met
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hagel - fellow - väl -met
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hagl - fellow -well -met
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hail-fellow-well-met

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET»

The term «hail-fellow-well-met» is used very little and occupies the 162.806 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET»

Discover the use of hail-fellow-well-met in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hail-fellow-well-met and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: A-L
Hail Fellow, Well met! Int. Acted at the Haymarket, Aug. 9, 1792, for Mr. Wilson's benefit. The subject was temporary, and the piece afforded a laugh, but was never printed. 4. Hail Fellow, Well met! A Drama, in five acts, by S. J. Pratt. 8vo. 1805.
David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones, 1812
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... of the best up-and-coming young dancers today. 0 The film was hailed as a masterpiece in its day. hail from somewhere formal to come from or to have been born in a particular place: Joe originally hails from Toronto. hail-fellow-well-met ...
‎2008
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
F73 Hail Fellow well met 1699 Ward Trip 68: But are never known to offer any Indignity to their Kings, who are Hail Fellow well met with his Subjects. 1713 Wise Churches 41: When men are without Law, and all hail Fellows, not well but badly  ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2: A Collection of Classics ...
What is the origin of the expression “hail-fellow-well-met”? “Hail-fellow-well-met” is an archaic reference to someone who is always cheerful but who is perhaps overdoing his or her enthusiasm. The expression began pleasantly enough as the ...
Doug Lennox, 2008
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Now You Know, Volume 4: The Book of Answers
What is the origin of the expression “hail-fellow-well-met”? “Hail-fellow-well-met” is an archaic reference to someone who is always cheerful but who is perhaps overdoing his or her enthusiasm. The expres- sion began pleasantly enough as ...
Doug Lennox, 2006
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Now You Know: The Book of Answers
What is the origin of the expression "hail-fellow-well-met"? "Hail-fellow-well-met" is an archaic reference to someone who is always cheerful but who is perhaps overdoing his or her enthusiasm. The expression began pleasantly enough as the ...
Doug Lennox, 2006
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
hail-fellow-well-met. haemoptysis or (US) hemoptysis /hi'moptisis/ P- noun ( haemoptyses /-si:z/) medicine spitting or coughing up of blood, especially from the lungs, as in tuberculosis. © 17c: from HAEMO- + Greek ptysis spitting, from ptyein to ...
Allied
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The Poems of Browning: Volume Three: 1846 - 1861
... and so dropped, And after them. I came up with the fun Hard by St. Laurence, hail fellow, well met,— Flower o' the rose, 52. lute-strings: the lute is the traditional instrument for Renaissance love-songs and serenades; cp. Serenade 20n. (p.
John Woolford, Daniel Karlin, Graduate Director for the School of English Daniel Karlin, 2014
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What's in a Word
As early as the sixteenth century, men were greeting each other, “Hail, fellow! Well met,” in the same jocular spirit that sometimes prompts a modern friend to ask, “What's cooking?” Around 1850 the phrase began to be used as though it were a ...
Webb B. Garrison, 1955
10
Stars Over Haiti: A True Story
"HAIL FELLOW, WELL MET” I can never forget one nutty character named Carl Sevirenson, who checked into the hotel wearing a large straw hat, with an open Hawaiian shirt, carrying a small wicker basket suitcase. Upon arrival he asked for  ...
Anthony Hattenbach, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAIL-FELLOW-WELL-MET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hail-fellow-well-met is used in the context of the following news items.
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Friendship tested, lies exposed
Harris dominates the stage. He doesn't yell because he doesn't have to—he knows he has the power. He starts off as a hail-fellow-well-met but ... «Agoura Hills Acorn, Jun 15»
2
Dean Mills became the eighth dean of the Missouri School of …
"He's not a hail-fellow-well-met, he's not a back slapper, he's not out showing the flag," Moen said. In the same way that Mills doesn't brag about ... «Columbia Missourian, May 15»
3
Sydney Mines' Father Bernie O'Connor mourned
He was a hail-fellow-well-met.” Morgan said O'Connor was also a personal acquaintance to Pope Benedict XVI, having co-authored an article ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, May 15»
4
'Game of Thrones' recap: Who are the show's best-cast actors?
On the page, he comes across as a far more boisterous, hail-fellow-well-met kind of warrior. (I imagined him as being like Brian Blessed's ... «Creative Loafing Atlanta, May 15»
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Man & The Echo on why Boris Johnson must never be Prime …
... to be – a chuckling bigot with ultimately limited little-Englander appeal, Johnson's pseudo liberalism and hail-fellow-well-met façade hide his ... «Gigwise, May 15»
6
War without end
To many, especially his brothers in arms, he was hail-fellow-well-met. He was the earthy bard of the local Eagles Club and a founding member ... «The Christian Century, May 15»
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Joe Soucheray: They chose evil. 'Outreach' programs can't change …
Omar Jamal, who is often a hail-fellow-well-met in the back room of Stogies on Grand, says he believes the young fellows from Minnesota were ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Apr 15»
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A broken heart in a bloodstained nightgown
Joshua Stewart was a hail-fellow-well-met Bucklaw; he is a singer one would want to hear more from, as is Megan Miller, the Alice. Noah Rice ... «Charlotte Observer, Apr 15»
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South Wales Echo letters: Monday, April 13, 2015
We joshed about it, normal inter-unit rivalry, but actually hail-fellow-well-met. The last time I saw Mrs Sullivan was after I joined the police and ... «WalesOnline, Apr 15»
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The Alley's Production of All My Sons Howls to the Gods
There are flashes of humor from the minor characters, but we know right at the beginning that Dad's hail-fellow-well-met attitude rings hollow. «Houston Press, Apr 15»

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