GOOD DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good day mean? 

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

1. a farewell remark

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD DAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farewell remark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

adieu; adios; arrivederci; au revoir; auf wiedersehen; bye; bye-bye; cheerio; good-by; good-bye; good day; goodby; goodbye; sayonara; so long

Context example:

they said their good-byes

Hypernyms ("good day" is a kind of...):

farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)

 Context examples 

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Cyber Monday, December 2, will be another good day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I think we might drive round to the offices of the Daily Telegraph, and so bring a good day’s work to a conclusion.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Good day to you, and thank you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Thank you," Martin said, addressing them collectively. "I wish you a good day."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Yes,” said I, “I am going over to Canterbury. It's a good day for a ride.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Come, Watson, for we have a good day’s work before us in town.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Good day.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through a wood, there came up a little old woman, and said to him, Good day, good day; you seem merry enough, but I am hungry and thirsty; do pray give me something to eat.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

After a good day’s killing I have seen our decks covered with hides and bodies, slippery with fat and blood, the scuppers running red; masts, ropes, and rails spattered with the sanguinary colour; and the men, like butchers plying their trade, naked and red of arm and hand, hard at work with ripping and flensing-knives, removing the skins from the pretty sea-creatures they had killed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)