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Good Samaritans

Good Samaritans is the plural of Good Samaritan.

Meaning of Good Samaritan

Noun

Good Samaritan (plural Good Samaritans)

  1. (figuratively, idiomatic) A person who helps someone in distress out of their own good nature.
    • America as the dynamic center of ever-widening spheres of enterprise, America as the training center of the skillfull servants of mankind, America as the Good Samaritan, really believing again that it is more blessed to give than to receive, […]1941 February 17, Henry Luce, “The American Century”, in LIFE, page 65

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Questions about Good Samaritans

What is Good Samaritans the plural of?
Good Samaritans is the plural of Good Samaritan.

Words near Good Samaritans in the dictionary

  1. good run
  2. good runs
  3. Good Samaritan
  4. Good Samaritan law
  5. Good Samaritan laws
  6. Good Samaritans
  7. good sense
  8. Good Shepherd
  9. good shit
  10. good show
  11. good sort

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