WELL-WISHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-wisher mean? 

• WELL-WISHER (noun)
  The noun WELL-WISHER has 1 sense:

1. someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

  Familiarity information: WELL-WISHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-WISHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher

Hypernyms ("well-wisher" is a kind of...):

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "well-wisher"):

bleeding heart (someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged)

fellow traveler; fellow traveller (a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party))

 Context examples 

I remain, dear sir, with respectful compliments to your lady and daughters, your well-wisher and friend, WILLIAM COLLINS

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To see you, cried he, in the midst of those who could not be my well-wishers; to see your cousin close by you, conversing and smiling, and feel all the horrible eligibilities and proprieties of the match!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He knows that human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey; and that if he does not live among his parishioners, and prove himself, by constant attention, their well-wisher and friend, he does very little either for their good or his own.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

As they walked home again, Mrs. Morland endeavoured to impress on her daughter's mind the happiness of having such steady well-wishers as Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)