Usually means: Affluent, financially comfortable or prosperous.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word well-to-do:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-to-do: Merriam-Webster
  2. well-to-do: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. well-to-do: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. well-to-do, well-to-do: Collins English Dictionary
  5. well-to-do: Vocabulary.com
  6. well-to-do: Wordnik
  7. well-to-do: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. well-to-do: Wiktionary
  9. well-to-do: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. well-to-do: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. well-to-do: Dictionary.com
  12. well-to-do: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. well-to-do: Rhymezone
  14. WELL-TO-DO: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. well-to-do: FreeDictionary.org
  16. well-to-do: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. well-to-do: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-to-do: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-to-do: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Rich, prosperous, financially stable and comfortable.

Similar:
rich, well-heeled, well-off, prosperous, well-fixed, comfortable, easy, well-situated, moneyed, well-padded, more...

Opposite:
impoverished, poor, destitute, needy, underprivileged

Types:
wealthy, prosperous, affluent, opulent, moneyed, more...

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Similar:
rich, well-heeled, well-off, prosperous, well-fixed, comfortable, easy, well-situated, moneyed, well-padded, more...

Opposite:
impoverished, poor, destitute, needy, underprivileged

Types:
wealthy, prosperous, affluent, opulent, moneyed, more...



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