well-wisher UK /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃə/US /ˈwɛlˌwɪʃɚ/ noun3 •Someone who extends good wishes, or expresses sympathy, to someone else.[T]he actual traytor or rebel is guilty of perjury in the eye of the lavv; the secret promoter, or vvell-vvisher of the cause, is so before the Tribunal of conscience. — 1716 •(rare) Someone who makes a wish at a wishing well.They strolled on and passed a smiling man standing by the Village wishing well. "Well," said the well-wisher. Ah … must be the Village idiot. — 2008 •(no longer used, rare) Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something.I never saw your chancellor, nor his chaplain. The latter has a good deal of learning, and is a well wisher to be an author: your chancellor is an excellent man. — 1711 formswell-wishers