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单词 wellaway
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Definition of wellaway in English:

wellaway

exclamation ˈwɛləweɪ
  • As an exclamation of sorrow or lamentation: ‘ah!’ ‘alas!’ Compare welladay, "wellanear", "well-a-wins". Now archaic.

noun ˈwɛləweɪ
  • The utterance of ‘wellaway’; lamentation.

Origin

Old English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. From woe adverb + lo + woe adverb, perhaps as a variant of wale with partial reduplication.

 
 

Definition of wellaway in US English:

wellaway

exclamationˈwɛləweɪ
  • As an exclamation of sorrow or lamentation: ‘ah!’ ‘alas!’ Compare welladay, "wellanear", "well-a-wins". Now archaic.

nounˈwɛləweɪ
  • The utterance of ‘wellaway’; lamentation.

Origin

Old English; earliest use found in Bede's Ecclesiastical History. From woe + lo + woe, perhaps as a variant of wale with partial reduplication.

 
 
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