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good-evening

good-evening is the dated form of good evening.

Meaning of good evening

Interjection

  1. (Canada, generally formal in US) Used as a greeting in the evening.
    • Good evening everyone and welcome to our 34th annual general meeting.
    Synonyms:
    good-den[Appendix:Glossary

Questions about good-evening

What is good-evening the dated form of?
Good-evening is the dated form of good evening.

Words near good-evening in the dictionary

  1. good-cop, bad-cop
  2. good-cop-bad-cop
  3. good-cop/bad-cop
  4. good-day
  5. good-den
  6. good-evening
  7. good-fellowship
  8. good-for-naught
  9. good-for-naughts
  10. good-for-nothing
  11. good-for-nothingest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: good-evening (page history and authors); good evening (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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