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See also: good-morning and goodmorning

English

English phrasebook
This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.
For other English entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Etymology

From Middle English gud mornynge (also as goode morne, gode morne), from Old English *gōdne morgen (“good morning”), an ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good morning", equivalent to good +‎ morning. Compare West Frisian goeie moarn, Dutch goedemorgen, German guten Morgen, Danish god morgen, Swedish god morgon, Icelandic góðan morgunn.

Pronunciation

Interjection

good morning

  1. Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.
    Synonym: good morrow (archaic)
    The teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."
    • 2019 December 15, Hugh Graham, Alice Hutton, “Milk or tea first? Charles's butlers have the answer”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,188, page 5:
      Other rules learnt by butlers include lighting candles 15 minutes before guests enter a room, and not saying "good morning" to guests until you are 5ft away.
  2. (less common, more formal) A parting in the morning.
    Thank you for coming everyone and I hope to see you again next year. Good morning.
    • 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “An Unexpected Party”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 19:
      “Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you! […]” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. / “What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, […]”
  3. (by extension, humorous) Used to greet someone who has just awakened (irrespective of the time of day).
    Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!
  4. (by extension, informal) Said to someone who has come to a belated realization.
    You're just realizing that now? Good morning!

Usage notes

  • May be shortened in casual speech to morning.
  • As a greeting, may be used by anyone in almost any setting from the most casual to the most formal, close friend or stranger, regardless of age, social group, etc.

Alternative forms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Japanese: グッモーニン

Translations

Noun

good morning (plural good mornings)

  1. A greeting consisting of the interjection.
  2. (weightlifting) An exercise performed by bending forward at the waist and then returning to a standing posture, while bearing a barbell or resistance band across the shoulders.

Alternative forms

Verb

good morning (third-person singular simple present good mornings, present participle good morninging, simple past and past participle good morninged)

  1. Alternative form of good-morning (“to say good morning (to someone)”).
    • 1802, George Colman, (the Younger), “Sir Thomas Erpingham’s Sonnet on His Lady”, in Broad Grins; […], London: […] [F]or T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […] [by] W[illiam] Flint, […], →OCLC, page 56:
      It could not otherwise befall / (Sir Thomas, and his Wife, this course persuing,) / But that the Lady, affable to all, / Should greet the Friars, on her way / To matins, as she met them, every day, / Good morninging, and how d’ye doing: […]
    • 1850 February, [Robert Smith Surtees], “Soapey Sponge’s Sporting Tour”, in W[illiam] Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, and Humorist, volume LXXXVIII, number CCCL, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter XXXIV (Mr. Puffington; or, The Young Man about Town), page 209:
      So Puffington sauntered along good morninging “Sir Harrys,” and “Sir Jameses,” and “Lord Johns,” and “Lord Toms,” […]
    • 2016, Teresa Millias, “Bones on the Sidewalk”, in Ripples (Stories from Lone Moon Creek; 2), Mesa, Ariz.: Brighton Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
      He stopped at Maggie’s spot. They “good morninged” each other.
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Kankanaey

Etymology

Borrowed from English good morning.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɡud moɾˈniŋ/ [ˌɡod̚ mʊɾˈni̞ŋ]
    • Rhymes: -iŋ
  • IPA(key): /ˌɡud moɾˈneŋ/ [ˌɡod̚ mʊɾˈneŋ]
    • Rhymes: -eŋ
  • Syllabification: good mor‧ning

Interjection

good morning (common)

  1. good morning (used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.)

Usage notes

  • There is no equivalent to the greeting "good morning" in Kankanaey. Greetings are done using non-verbal means or is implied through different sentences. Other translations are literal but are not commonly used, while others are used in the sense to start a speech.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms & variants of good morning
More information Northern / Applai, Others ...
  • gawis ay agew
  • gawis ay agsapa
  • gawis ay wakgat
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