GOOD TURN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good turn mean? 

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

1. a favor for someone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD TURN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A favor for someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

good turn; turn

Context example:

he did me a good turn

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

favor; favour (an act of gracious kindness)

 Context examples 

Then they came hopping up to it, satisfied their hunger, and cried: “We will remember you—one good turn deserves another!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We won't interfere now, but watch our chance, and do them a good turn in spite of themselves.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the old town a good turn.

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

“Well, Mr. Holmes, it is difficult for me to refuse you anything, for you have been of use to the force once or twice in the past, and we owe you a good turn at Scotland Yard,” said Lestrade.

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

So he turned on to a side path and the ant-king cried out to him: “We will remember you—one good turn deserves another!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

These little wights have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them, and do them a good turn if we can.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)