WELL-ORDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-ordered mean? 

• WELL-ORDERED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-ORDERED has 1 sense:

1. ordered well

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-ORDERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ordered well

Context example:

well-ordered work habits

Similar:

regular (in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle)

 Context examples 

Over all this vast meadow there lay a great city of tents—thousands upon thousands of them, laid out in streets and in squares like a well-ordered town.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was the second time he had been out with her alone, and as they rode along through the balmy warmth, just chilled by she sea-breeze to refreshing coolness, he was profoundly impressed by the fact that it was a very beautiful and well-ordered world and that it was good to be alive and to love.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

How Jo did enjoy her 'wilderness of boys', and how poor, dear Aunt March would have lamented had she been there to see the sacred precincts of prim, well-ordered Plumfield overrun with Toms, Dicks, and Harrys!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Alleyne bore his share and his ale-mug away with him to a retired trestle in the corner, where he could sup in peace and watch the strange scene, which was so different to those silent and well-ordered meals to which he was accustomed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)