GOOD BOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Good Book mean? 

• GOOD BOOK (noun)
  The noun GOOD BOOK has 1 sense:

1. the sacred writings of the Christian religions

  Familiarity information: GOOD BOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD BOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sacred writings of the Christian religions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God

Context example:

he went to carry the Word to the heathen

Hypernyms ("Good Book" is a kind of...):

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Meronyms (parts of "Good Book"):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

text (a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon)

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

Testament (either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible)

Domain member category:

covenant ((Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return)

eisegesis (personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas)

exegesis (an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible))

Gabriel ((Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God)

Noachian deluge; Noah's flood; Noah and the Flood; the Flood ((Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings)

demythologise; demythologize (remove the mythical element from (writings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Good Book"):

family Bible (a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births)

Instance hyponyms:

Vulgate (the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church)

Douay-Rheims Bible; Douay-Rheims Version; Douay Bible; Douay Version; Rheims-Douay Bible; Rheims-Douay Version (an English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars)

Authorized Version; King James Bible; King James Version (an English translation of the Bible published in 1611)

Revised Version (a British revision of the Authorized Version)

New English Bible (a modern English version of the Bible and Apocrypha)

American Revised Version; American Standard Version (a revised version of the King James Version)

Revised Standard Version (a revision of the American Standard Version)

 Context examples 

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) I can enjoy a good book or radio or television programme.

(HADS - I Can Enjoy a Good Book or Radio or Television Programme, NCI Thesaurus)

I had been so much astonished already, that I only felt a kind of resigned wonder when Mr. Littimer walked forth, reading a good book!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I haven't given up the hope that I may write a good book yet, but I can wait, and I'm sure it will be all the better for such experiences and illustrations as these, and Jo pointed from the lively lads in the distance to her father, leaning on the Professor's arm, as they walked to and fro in the sunshine, deep in one of the conversations which both enjoyed so much, and then to her mother, sitting enthroned among her daughters, with their children in her lap and at her feet, as if all found help and happiness in the face which never could grow old to them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)