AS WELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does as well mean? 

• AS WELL (adverb)
  The adverb AS WELL has 1 sense:

1. in addition

  Familiarity information: AS WELL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AS WELL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In addition

Synonyms:

also; as well; besides; likewise; too

Context example:

he has a Mercedes, too

 Context examples 

His face was lighted up with interest in the youthful struggles of Mr. Butler; but there was a frown upon his face as well.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was hardly an appeal to be successful with one who was an old campaigner as well as an old friend.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your visitor seems to have left traces in your bedroom as well as in your sitting-room, Mr. Soames.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have a packed seventh house of marriage, which also rules your established live-in partner, as well as close colleagues at work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They have certain professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities, as well as inclinations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Van Helsing opened his missal and began to read, and Quincey and I followed as well as we could.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He it was that came up on the poop without orders and dragged Johnson forward, where he set about dressing his wounds as well as he could and making him comfortable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Charles turned his back and drew the lashings down as well as he could, which was not in the least well.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It is just as well that we should do business with the male relatives.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)