Weal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Prosperity; happiness: in weal and woe.
  • n. The welfare of the community; the general good: the public weal.
  • n. A ridge on the flesh raised by a blow; a welt.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip; a welt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The mark of a stripe. See wale.
  • v. To mark with stripes. See wale.
  • n. A sound, healthy, or prosperous state of a person or thing; prosperity; happiness; welfare.
  • n. The body politic; the state; common wealth.
  • v. To promote the weal of; to cause to be prosperous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Wealth; riches; hence, prosperity; success; happiness; well-being; the state of being well or prosperous: as, come weal or woe.
  • n. The state: properly in the phrases common weal, public weal, general weal, meaning primarily ‘the common or public welfare,’ but used (the first now as a compound word) to designate the state (in which weal used alone is an abbreviation of commonweal).
  • To promote the weal or welfare of.
  • Same as wale.
  • n. Same as wed.
  • To be in woe or want.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    harm    hurt    trauma    injury   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    wale   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    prosperity    happiness    welfare    welt    wale    ridge    flea-bite    streak   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    welfare    well-being    blessedness