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good-morning

good-morning is the alternative form of good morning.

good-morning is the archaic form of good morning.

Meaning of good morning

Noun

good morning (plural good mornings)

  1. A greeting consisting of the interjection.
  2. An exercise performed by bending forward at the waist and then returning to a standing posture, while bearing a barbell or resistance band across the shoulders.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:good morning.

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Verb

good-morning (third-person singular simple present good-mornings, present participle good-morninging, simple past and past participle good-morninged)

  1. (ambitransitive) To say good morning (to someone).
    • “Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you![…]” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. / “What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, […] And you do know my name, though you don’t...1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “An Unexpected Party”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August...
    • After breakfast this lad came in and said “Heil Hitler” and “Good morning.” Sam heiled Hitler and good-morninged right back, and the chap opened a portfolio and put down a lot of letters for Sam to sign.1941, Eric Knight, “The Yorkshire Man Flies Again”, in Wesley Winans Stout, editor, Post Stories of 1941, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1942, →OCLC, page 210

Forms of good-morning

Noun
pluralgood-mornings
Verb
third-person singular presentgood-mornings
present participlegood-morninging
past participlegood-morninged
pastgood-morninged

Origin of good-morning

From good morning.

Questions about good-morning

What does good-morning mean?
Good-morning means to say good morning (to someone).
What is good-morning the alternative form of?
Good-morning is the alternative form of good morning.
What part of speech is good-morning?
Good-morning is a verb.
What is the past tense of good-morning?
The past tense of good-morning is good-morninged.

Words near good-morning in the dictionary

  1. good-lookingness
  2. good-luck bone
  3. good-luck bones
  4. good-minded
  5. good-mindedness
  6. good-morning
  7. good-morninged
  8. good-morninging
  9. good-mornings
  10. good-natured
  11. good-naturedly

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