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WELL-TURNED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-turned mean?
• WELL-TURNED (adjective)
The adjective WELL-TURNED has 2 senses:
1. of a pleasing shape
2. (of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed
Familiarity information: WELL-TURNED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a pleasing shape
Context example:
a well-turned ankle
Similar:
shapely (having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed
Context example:
a well-turned phrase
Similar:
felicitous (exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style)
Domain category:
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
Context examples
He was a very large man, with noble shoulders, small waist, broad hips, well-turned legs, and the smallest of hands and feet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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