good work
good work noun: a person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
Noun
good work (plural good works)
- A person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
- [E]verlasting life . . . must be a righteous and just life; a loving and merciful life; for God is righteous, just, loving, merciful; and more, it must be an useful life, a life of good works.1859, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in The Good News of God
- "Truth, sir, is that which can never pass away; the Truth of Life is Good Works, which abide everlastingly."1910, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 27, in The Broad Highway
Interjection
- An exclamation of praise or encouragement; good job.
- Synonyms:
- well done
good work meaning in Telugu and Kannada
good work in Telugu
- a good work, a good deed, well doing, charity
- సుకృతము sukr̥tamu
good work in Kannada
- ಒಳ್ಳಿತೆಸಕ, ನಲ್ವೆಸ
Synonyms of good work
Forms of good work
| plural | good works |
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Words that rhyme with good work
Questions about good work
- What does good work mean?
- Good work means a person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
- What is good work in Telugu?
- Good work in Telugu is సుకృతము (sukr̥tamu). See Good work meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is good work?
- Good work can be a noun or an interjection.
- What is the plural of good work?
- The plural of good work is good works.
Words near good work in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: good work (page history and authors); సుకృతము (Telugu) (page history and authors); good work (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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