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good works

good works is the plural of good work.

Meaning of good work

Noun

good work (plural good works)

  1. (in plural) 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

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Questions about good works

What is good works the plural of?
Good works is the plural of good work.

Words near good works in the dictionary

  1. good wine needs no bush
  2. good word
  3. good words
  4. good work
  5. good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good
  6. good works
  7. Good's syndrome
  8. good-ass
  9. good-bad
  10. good-brother
  11. good-brothers

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