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good morrow

UK/ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/

good morrow interjection: good morning.

Interjection

  1. (archaic) Good morning.
    • Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus.
    • Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium?c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609...

Noun

good morrow (plural good morrows)

  1. (archaic) A greeting consisting of the interjection.
  2. (obsolete) Riverhemp, sesban.
    • Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods.1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, [A book https://www.jstor.org/stable/3172055] questioned to be a hoax...

Examples of good morrow in a sentence

  • Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
  • "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:

Forms of good morrow

Interjection
alternative formgood-morrow
alternative formgoodmorrow
Noun
pluralgood morrows

Origin of good morrow

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Questions about good morrow

What does good morrow mean?
Good morrow means good morning.
How do you use good morrow in a sentence?
Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?
What part of speech is good morrow?
Good morrow can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce good morrow?
Good morrow is pronounced /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/ (UK).

Words near good morrow in the dictionary

  1. good morn
  2. good morning
  3. good morninged
  4. good morninging
  5. good mornings
  6. good morrow
  7. good morrows
  8. good name
  9. good names
  10. good nature
  11. good natured

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