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wishing well

Word definitions for wishing well in dictionaries

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n. A well where, traditionally, wishes were thought to be granted, especially if coins were dropped into the water.

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A wishing well is a term from European folklore to describe wells where it was thought that any spoken wish would be granted. The idea that a wish would be granted came from the idea that water housed deities or had been placed there as a gift from the ...

Usage examples of wishing well.

You can never tell, never tell, wishing well, souls wishing, sighing, crying, never dying.

I pulled in behind him and had no more than gotten out when a young woman waddled down towards us from her house, skirting a pretty good collection of plastic-fantastic that was planted on her lawn (two pink flamingos, four or five little stone ducks in a line behind a big stone mother duck, and a really good plastic wishing well with plastic flowers planted in the plastic bucket).

Beside the wishing well was a large plaster cow who was apparently drinking from a birdbath.

This morning she chose the one that began along Hill Road, crossed through a medieval oak and hazel forest, and passed the source of a local spring called the Wishing Well.

There is a great difference between wishing well to a cause and supporting it in person.