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Definition of Good night
1. Noun. A conventional expression of farewell.
Definition of Good night
1. Phrase. A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Night
Literary usage of Good night
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"good night ! ' you' 11 murmur with a sigh, And tell me it is time to fly ...
Till slumber seal our weary sight— And then, my love, my soul, ' good night ! ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"The rose, so ruddy in the light, Bends on its stem all rayless now, And by its
side the lily white, A sister shadow, seems to bow: good night—good night The ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"This was literally bidding " good night " to my native land. CHAPTER II. THE first
day we passed at sea was the Sabbath. As we were just from port, ..."
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