American English pronunciation

How to pronounce welles

IPA transcription: ['wɛlz]

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Noun

Verb

  • come up, as of a liquid

    “Tears well in her eyes”

    “the currents well up”

Usage examples

  • He attended Wellesley College, where he studied physics and astronomy.
  • In the same year he got admitted in Welleslyan Mission College at Bankura.
  • Barnett taught at Harvard, Columbia, Wellesley and the New England Conservatory of Music.
  • He was succeeded by neuroscientist Joanne Berger-Sweeney, formerly the Associate Dean of Wellesley College.
  • It refers to Carol Reed's "The Third Man" starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.
  • Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum says this is Welles' first pseudo-documentary.
  • Province Wellesley, in the state of Penang, Malaysia; was named after Richard Wellesley.
  • Machado soon lost faith in Welles and denounced American interference as a colonialist adventure.
  • A native of the New York City area, Duffy attended Wellesley College.
  • The Townships of Wellesley and Wilmot were redistributed to the Perth-Wellington-Waterloo district.