good morrow
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (noun): good-morrow, goodmorrow
Etymology
editFrom Middle English good morow, good morwe.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/
Interjection
edit- (archaic) Good morning.
- c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- 1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
- Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?
- 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
Noun
editgood morrow (plural good morrows)
- (archaic) A greeting consisting of the interjection.
- (obsolete) Riverhemp, sesban.
- 1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, [A book questioned to be a hoax], first Edition in Philadelphia page 133 and two editions in Troy by Luther Pratt page 133:
- Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods.
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