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Definition of Do well
1. Verb. Act in one's own or everybody's best interest. "You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Do Well
Literary usage of Do well
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"tunes the specimens do well; at other times they fail. ... All of these do well
in southern Florida and would doubtless prove hardy throughout a large part ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1908)
"Do-well and Do-better have crowned a king to protect them all and prevent ...
In passus x, Wit says that Duke Do-well dwells in a castle with Lady Anima, ..."
3. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"... CHAPTER LXXII How Sir Dinadan provoked Sir Tristram to do well. AND thou, Sir
Tristram, farest all this day as though thou hadst been asleep, ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Did the pharisees do well in loving to be called of men masters, in getting the
... Did the common-prayer men do well in putting the papists out of the ..."
5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1887)
"As to plums, there are very few varieties of plums that do well in Los Angeles
... I would encourage every man to put in more prunes where they do well. MR. ..."
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