well-wisher

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • [T]he actual traytor or rebel is guilty of perjury in the eye of the lavv; the ſecret promoter, or vvell-vviſher of the cauſe, is ſo before the Tribunal of conſcience.
   • Nor did he ſeem to have made an unreaſonable reply to them both, and it vvas eaſy for a ſpeech to be received favorably amongſt vvellvviſhers.
2. 2

   Followed by to

   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. 3

   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.
   • "I'll put a removable lid on it [a wishing well]," he assured her. "That way, it'll be safe for the nippers, but accessible to, um, well wishers. Have a wish in mind, Bree?"
   • Maybe I am a wishing well, / I have regular well-wishers / Throwing me a coin. / Only change they throw me / Because they don't expect to see / Any change back.

The neighborhood

• neighborwell-wished
• neighborwell-wishing
• neighboracquaintance
• neighborbenevolent
• neighborGodspeed