good morning

Interjection

1. Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.
   • The teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."
   • Other rules learnt by butlers include lighting candles 15 minutes before guests enter a room, and not saying "good morning" to guests until you are 5ft away.2019 December 15, Hugh Graham, Alice Hutton, “Milk or tea first? Charles's butlers have the answer”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,188, page 5

   Synonyms:

   good morrow

2. (uncommon, more formal) A parting in the morning.
   • Thank you for coming everyone and I hope to see you again next year. Good morning.
   • “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,[…]”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...
3. (broadly, humorous) Used to greet someone who has just awakened (irrespective of the time of day).
   • Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!
4. (broadly, informal) Said to someone who has come to a belated realization.
   • You're just realizing that now? 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.