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.

   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.

   ―Would you though? ―I would 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”.

• (also or equally): no less

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

• “as well”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Sewall