goodnight

phrase

1. 1

   Variant of good nightAlternative spelling of good night.

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

   So goodnight to you—and goodnight, Councilor.

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noun

1. 1

   An instance of saying “good night”; a nighttime farewell.

   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.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of good-nightAlternative spelling of good-night.

   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.

   After eight hours of intense viewing, o-o-hing, and scribbling down plant names and ideas, a spent group of participants returned to our cars, goodnighted, and went our separate ways.

Forms

plural

goodnights

past tense

goodnighted

past participle

goodnighted

present participle

goodnighting

third person singular

goodnights