good news
/ɡʊd nuːz/
good news noun: something or someone pleasant, fortunate, or otherwise positive.
Noun
good news (uncountable)
- Something or someone pleasant, fortunate, or otherwise positive.
- The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61
- Antonyms:
- bad news
- The message of Jesus concerning the salvation of the faithful, as elaborated in the Gospels.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, news.
good news meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
good news in Hindi
- something positive
- ख़ुशख़बरी xuśxabrī
good news in Tamil
- something positive
- நற்செய்தி naṟceyti, நல்லது nallatu
- the message of Jesus concerning the salvation of the faithful
- நற்செய்தி naṟceyti
good news in Urdu
- something positive
- خوش خبری xoś xabrī
good news in Bengali
- good news
- খোশখবর khōśkhobor, সুসমাচার śuśomacar, তোফা tōpha
More languagesFewer languages
- good news in Telugu
- శుభవార్త śubhavārta
- good news in Kannada
- ಒಸಗೆವಾತು
- good news in Gujarati
- વધાઈ vadhāī
- good news in Arabic
- بُشْرَى bušrā, بِشَارَة bišāra, إِنْجِيل ʔinjīl, خَبَر سَارّ ḵabar sārr
- good news in Malay
- kabar gembira
- good news in Indonesian
- kabar baik
- good news in Persian
- نوید navid, مژده možde
- good news in Vietnamese
- tin mừng, tin vui, tin lành
Antonyms of good news
Words formed from good news
Questions about good news
- What does good news mean?
- Good news means something or someone pleasant, fortunate, or otherwise positive.
- What is good news in Hindi?
- Good news in Hindi is ख़ुशख़बरी (xuśxabrī). See Good news meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is good news?
- Good news is a noun.
- How do you pronounce good news?
- Good news is pronounced /ɡʊd nuːz/ (US).
Words near good news in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: good news (page history and authors); খোশখবর (Bengali) (page history and authors); good news (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); વધાઈ (Gujarati) (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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