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

"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

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 Beaumont, Francis

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 Donne, John

Dayes, that need borrow, No part of their good morrow, From a fore-spent night of sorrow.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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 Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von