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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 positionplay

  Familiarity information: WELL-CONNECTED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WELL-CONNECTED (adjective)


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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