"good job" meaning in English

See good job in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

Audio: en-au-good job.ogg
Head templates: {{en-interj}} good job
  1. (idiomatic) Well done; congratulations! Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: well done Translations (a phrase used to praise for a good job or efforts): 做得好 (zuò de hǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), 辛苦 (xīnkǔ) (english: stock phrase when thanking someone for the job) (Chinese Mandarin), dobrá práce (Czech), goed gedaan (Dutch), goed zo (Dutch), goed bezig (Dutch), hyvin tehty (Finnish), bon travail (French), bien joué (French), ご苦労様でした (go-kurō-sama deshita) (english: stock phrase when thanking someone for the job) (alt: ごくろうさまでした) (Japanese), syabas (Malay), dobra robota (Polish), хоро́шая рабо́та (xoróšaja rabóta) (Russian), молоде́ц! (molodéc!) [masculine] (Russian), svaka čast (Serbo-Croatian), buen trabajo (Spanish), bra jobbat (Swedish), làm tốt lắm (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-good_job-en-intj-XA1Q6fmV

Noun

Audio: en-au-good job.ogg Forms: good jobs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} good job (plural good jobs)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, job. Related terms: job's a good 'un
    Sense id: en-good_job-en-noun-okcYGEGH
  2. (idiomatic, British) a good thing. Tags: British, idiomatic Translations (a good thing): hyvä juttu (Finnish), хорошо́ (xorošó) (Russian), 讚讚讚 (Traditional Chinese), 赞赞赞 (zàn zàn zàn) (Traditional Chinese)
    Sense id: en-good_job-en-noun-CSWs4D1E Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Chinese translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 8 86 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 6 90 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 9 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 9 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Chinese translations: 7 9 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 15 9 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 10 11 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 11 8 82 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 26 9 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 7 9 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 15 9 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 11 9 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 13 9 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 7 9 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 15 9 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 7 10 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 15 8 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 13 7 80 Disambiguation of 'a good thing': 1 99

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "word": "buen trabajo"
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      "sense": "a good thing",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.