GOOD NIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good night mean? 

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

1. a conventional expression of farewell

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD NIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conventional expression of farewell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

 Context examples 

But when he took her in his arms at the door and kissed her good night in tender lover-fashion, she forgot everything in the outrush of her own love to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I bade good night to Mr. Omer, and to Mr. and Mrs. Joram; and directed my steps thither, with a solemn feeling, which made Mr. Barkis quite a new and different creature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He saluted me in a hearty way, and hoped that I had had a good night's rest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The child had a good night, and was going on well the next day.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“But we’ll both come down to Crawley to-morrow. So good night, Sir Charles.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A good night's rest improved her spirits.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Emma then felt it indispensable to wish him a good night.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire Short Form (OAB-q Short Form) Interfered with your ability to get a good night's rest?

(OAB-q Short Form - Interfered with a Good Night's Rest, NCI Thesaurus)

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q) Interfered with your ability to get a good night's rest?

(OAB-q - Interfered with a Good Night's Rest, NCI Thesaurus)