Goodnight

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Meaning

Alternative spelling of good night..

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative spelling of good night.
2. An instance of saying “good night”; a nighttime farewell.
3. Alternative spelling of good-night.

Example Sentences

I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe / Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight.

So goodnight to you—and goodnight, Councilor.

At last the pupils had all taken their hats and said their “Goodnights,” and Adam, knowing his old master's habits, rose and said, “Shall I put the candles out, Mr. Massey?”

The afternoon passed into evening, and the sparrows began to twitter their goodnights in their lodgings on the roof and crevices of the chimney; […]

George wakes, hearing the confused goodnights of the departing guests.

Ray and Josh spoke their goodnights.

With each one goodnighted / Including the pup, / Baby is sleeping / Bottom up.

Then he goodnighted me, I changed into pyjamas and in a trice was sleeping the sleep of the unjust, which is quite as dreamless as the sleep of the just if the unjust sleeper has a litre of Red Hackle on his bedside table.

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Word Forms

• goodnights
• goodnighting
• goodnighted

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