as well

• (archaic) aswell, (obsolete) aswel

• IPA^(key): /æzwɛl/, [æˑzˈwɛːɫ]
• IPA^(key): /æzˈwɛl/, [æˑzˈwɛːɫ]
• IPA^(key): /əzˈwɛl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

as well (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) In addition; also.

   Synonyms: additionally, too

   Wearing his hat and coat, he looked outside and decided he should take an umbrella as well.

2. To the same effect.

   They might as well walk as drive in this traffic.

   • 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics:

     There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of the female liver.

3. (South Africa) Me too.
4. (UK, colloquial) An intensifier. Actually; really.

   ―Would you though? ―I would as well.

   ―She looks so much like her mum, don't you think? ―Oh my god, she does as well!

   ―Good morning Mr Brown! ―Good morning! I see you've got little Molly [pet dog] out for a stroll as well!

• In Canada, it may be used either at the start of a phrase or at the end.
• The South African use is stressed on “as”.
• The intensifier use is often phatic, divorced from any sense of an addition happening, but in some utterances the degree of phaticness is ambiguous. The non-additive nature can seem odd to speakers of other varieties until they realize that the term can be used this way in British English.

• (also or equally): no less

• as well as
• may as well
• might as well

• “as well”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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