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in good time

in good time prepositional phrase: at a suitable time that is upcoming.

Prepositional phrase

  1. At a suitable time that is upcoming.
    • Lear: I gave you all—
      Reagan: And in good time you gave it.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. In time; before an appointed time; with time to spare.
    • No visitors appeared to delay them, and they all three set off in good time for the pump-room.1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817...
    • A taxicab took me round in good time for my appointment.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

in good time meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

in good time in Tamil

ஏற்கவே

in good time in Malayalam

on time, punctually, early
കൃത്യസമയത്ത്, സമയത്തിന്, സമയത്ത്, യഥാസമയം, തക്കസമയത്ത്, സമയകൃത്യതയോടെ

Synonyms of in good time

Words formed from in good time

Questions about in good time

What does in good time mean?
In good time means at a suitable time that is upcoming.
What is in good time in Tamil?
In good time in Tamil is ஏற்கவே. See In good time meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in good time?
In good time is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in good time in the dictionary

  1. in good part
  2. in good repair
  3. in good season
  4. in good sorts
  5. in good stead
  6. in good time
  7. in good voice
  8. in green
  9. in gross
  10. in haec verba
  11. in half

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in good time (page history and authors); in good time (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in good time (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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