"good-night" meaning in English

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Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase|head=good-night}} good-night
  1. Archaic form of good night. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: good night
    Sense id: en-good-night-en-phrase-PT~a7HoU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 80 20

Verb

Forms: good-nights [present, singular, third-person], good-nighting [participle, present], good-nighted [participle, past], good-nighted [past], goodnight [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} good-night (third-person singular simple present good-nights, present participle good-nighting, simple past and past participle good-nighted)
  1. (ambitransitive) To utter the farewell “good night” to (somebody). Tags: ambitransitive
    Sense id: en-good-night-en-verb-nsSiRlqo

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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