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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əz ˈwɛl æz/, /əz ˈwɛl əz/, (colloquial) /əˈzwɛlz/
- Rhymes: -ɛləz, -ɛlz
Conjunction
as well as
- And, in addition.
The moon as well as the stars was shining down on them.
She has to sing as well as play the piano.
Smoking is unhealthy, as well as making you smell bad.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, well.
As well as I recollect, he was about six feet tall.
She sings as well as she plays the piano.
Translations
and in addition
- Catalan: i també, així com (ca), i a més
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 以及 (zh) (yǐjí)
- Danish: samt (da)
- Dutch: alsmede (nl), evenals (nl)
- Esperanto: same kiel
- Finnish: samoin kuin, sekä (fi)
- French: ainsi que (fr), de même que (fr)
- German: sowie (de)
- Greek: καθώς και (kathós kai)
- Hebrew: הֵן X הֵן Y (he) (hen X hen Y), כְּמוֹ כֵן (kmo chen)
- Hungarian: valamint (hu)
- Italian: e anche, oltre a, nonché (it)
- Japanese: ...のほかに (ja) (... no hoka ni)
- Latin: atque (la)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: samt (no)
- Nynorsk: og dessutan
- Polish: oraz (pl)
- Portuguese: assim como (pt)
- Romanian: precum și
- Russian: а та́кже (ru) (a tákže), заодно́ (ru) (zaodnó), к тому́ же (ru) (k tomú že)
- Serbo-Croatian: kao i
- Spanish: así como
- Swedish: samt (sv)
- Thai: รวมไปถึง (ruam pai thung)
- Turkish: yanısıra (tr)
- Ukrainian: тако́ж (uk) (takóž), до то́го ж (do tóho ž)
- Vietnamese: cũng như
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too; likewise; in addition
Preposition
as well as
- In addition to; further to.
As well as the obvious financial benefits, the merger will allow us some breathing room with regards to R&D.
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