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good-night en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To utter the farewell “good night” to (somebody).
    • And he didn’t say another word until he good-nighted at the gate. 1920, Interlude, page 40:
    • We were good-nighted and kissed by the crowd of parents. 1996, Yann Martel, Self, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, page 36:
    • […]the “Lothario” of the young lady’s temporary choice was good-nighted in her sweetest voice. 1927, Journal of the Outdoor Life, page 272:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
good-nighting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goodnight alternative lexicographic
good-nighted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
good-nighted Tense=Past lexicographic
good-nights Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

good-night en · X

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of good night.
    alt of good night
    • “Good-night, cousin,” said Phœbe, strangely affected by Hepzibah’s manner. “If you begin to love me, I am glad!” 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Maule’s Well”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 107:
    • They wished her good-night in their several fashions. “Good-night, mother. Well, some people are born with silver spoons!” “Good-night, mother dear. Don’t you think Fordham looks dreadful?” “Oh, no, Armie; much better than when I came up to town.” “Good-night, Mother Carey. If those young folks make all their parties so jolly, it will be the pleasantest house in London! Good-night!” 1879, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Traveller’s Joy”, in Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood, volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., page 820:
    • Good-night! my Friends, Heaven guard ye all! good-night! 1696 [1680], Tho[mas] Otway, The Orphan or, The Unhappy-Marriage. A Tragedy. As It Is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke’s Theatre., London: […] R. Bentley, […], act III, page 24: