good morrow

American  

interjection

Archaic.

1. good morning.

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Etymology

Origin of good morrow

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

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good morrow

"Well. You'll want to talk with your friends, I expect. I'll bid you good morrow."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

So I came quietly behind them and said, "Good night or good day or good morrow or good even, gentlemen: for tell me what hour it is that I may know how to greet ye."

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Good night, good sleep, good rest from sorrow To these that shall not have good morrow; The gods be gentle to all these.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

To Sr G. M. If you were here, you would not think me importune, if I bid you good morrow every day; and such a patience will excuse my often Letters.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne

I do not lye Sir, I say you want fair language, nay 'tis certain You cannot say good morrow.

From The Mad Lover The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont