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God bless

God bless interjection: god bless you: a short prayer for the recipient, or a nonliteral well-wishing benediction or valediction culturally inspired by such prayer and thematically concordant with it.

Interjection

  1. God bless you: a short prayer for the recipient, or a nonliteral well-wishing benediction or valediction culturally inspired by such prayer and thematically concordant with it.
    • Near-synonyms: God love (someone or something), Godspeed, good luck
    • Goodbye, and God bless!
    Antonyms:
    goddamn, goddamnit

Synonyms of God bless

Antonyms

Forms of God bless

alternative pronunciation-spelling uncommonGodbless
alternative pronunciation-spelling uncommonGobbless
alternative pronunciation-spelling uncommonGobless

Origin of God bless

Ellipsis of God bless you and similar phrases.

Questions about God bless

What does God bless mean?
God bless means god bless you: a short prayer for the recipient, or a nonliteral well-wishing benediction or valediction culturally inspired by such prayer and thematically concordant with it.
What part of speech is God bless?
God bless is an interjection.

Words near God bless in the dictionary

  1. god
  2. God Almighty
  3. god awful
  4. God be with the days
  5. God be with you
  6. God bless
  7. God bless America
  8. God bless someone's cotton socks
  9. God bless the Duke of Argyle
  10. God bless the Duke of Argyll
  11. God bless the mark

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