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GODSPEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Godspeed mean?
• GODSPEED (noun)
The noun GODSPEED has 1 sense:
1. a successful journey
Familiarity information: GODSPEED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A successful journey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
they wished him Godspeed
Hypernyms ("Godspeed" is a kind of...):
success (an event that accomplishes its intended purpose)
Context examples
She would not have said ‘Godspeed’ had it not been so. ‘D’—that should be a guide.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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