good morning

alternative archaic good-morning

1. Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.

   The teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."

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   Other rules learnt by butlers include lighting candles 15 minutes before guests enter a room, and not saying "good morning" to guests until you are 5ft away.

   2019 December 15, Hugh Graham, Alice Hutton, “Milk or tea first? Charles's butlers have the answer”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,188, page 5

   Synonyms: good morrow

2. uncommonmore formalA parting in the morning.

   Thank you for coming everyone and I hope to see you again next year. Good morning.

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   “Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you![…]” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. / “What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me,[…]”

   1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “An Unexpected Party”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 19

3. broadlyhumorousUsed to greet someone who has just awakened (irrespective of the time of day).

   Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!

4. broadlyinformalSaid to someone who has come to a belated realization.

   You're just realizing that now? Good morning!

plural good mornings · alternative good-morning · alternative goodmorning

1. A greeting consisting of the interjection.
2. hobbiesAn exercise performed by bending forward at the waist and then returning to a standing posture, while bearing a barbell or resistance band across the shoulders.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:good morning.

present singular third person good mornings · participle present good morninging · participle past good morninged · past good morninged

1. alternativeAlternative form of good-morning (“to say good morning (to someone)”).

   He stopped at Maggie’s spot. They “good morninged” each other.

   2016, Teresa Millias, “Bones on the Sidewalk”, in Ripples (Stories from Lone Moon Creek; 2), Mesa, Ariz.: Brighton Publishing, →ISBN, page 78

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   It could not otherwise befall / (Sir Thomas, and his Wife, this course persuing,) / But that the Lady, affable to all, / Should greet the Friars, on her way / To matins, as she met them, every day, / Good morninging, and how d’ye doing: […]

   1802, George Colman, (the Younger), “Sir Thomas Erpingham’s Sonnet on His Lady”, in Broad Grins; […], London: […] [F]or T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […] [by] W[illiam] Flint, […], →OCLC, page 56

   So Puffington sauntered along good morninging “Sir Harrys,” and “Sir Jameses,” and “Lord Johns,” and “Lord Toms,” […]

   1850 February, [Robert Smith Surtees], “Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, and Humorist, volume LXXXVIII, number CCCL, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter XXXIV (Mr. Puffington; or, The Young Man about Town), page 209