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WELL-CONNECTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-connected mean?
• WELL-CONNECTED (adjective)
The adjective WELL-CONNECTED has 1 sense:
1. connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position
Familiarity information: WELL-CONNECTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Connected by blood or close acquaintance with people of wealth or social position
Context example:
a well-connected Edinburgh family
Similar:
connected (joined or linked together)
Context examples
Now, there was nothing so charming to her imagination as the unpretending comfort of a well-connected parsonage, something like Fullerton, but better: Fullerton had its faults, but Woodston probably had none.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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