well-wisher

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Someone who extends good wishes, or expresses sympathy, to someone else.

   “[T]hose honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and raillery of their well-wishers and companions; that are pelted by men, women, and children, friends and foes, and in a word, stand as butts in conversation, for every one to shoot at that pleases.”

2. isim Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something.

   “I never saw your chancellor, nor his chaplain. The latter has a good deal of learning, and is a well wisher to be an author: your chancellor is an excellent man.”

3. isim Someone who makes a wish at a wishing well.

   “They strolled on and passed a smiling man standing by the Village wishing well. "Well," said the well-wisher. Ah … must be the Village idiot.”