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Slang in 1811 | GOOD MAN. A word of various imports, according to the place where it is spoken: in the city it means a rich man; at Hockley in the Hole, or St. Giles's, an expert boxer; at a bagnio in Covent Garden, a vigorous fornicator; at an alehouse or tavern, one wh. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benefactor | Noun: benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae; salt of the earth; (good man); auxiliary. |
Good Man | Noun: good man, honest man, worthy. |
Inexpedience | Beneficence; good man. |
Man | Noun: man, male, he, him; manhood. (adolescence); gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband. (married man); Mr., mister; boy. (youth). |
Marriage | Bridesmaid, bridesman, best man; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate; husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GOOD MAN |
| English words defined with "GOOD MAN": At heart ♦ clutch ♦ nasty ♦ sincere ♦ tight. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GOOD MAN": Article omitted ♦ FRANKALMOIGNE ♦ GHOUL ♦ Werewolf. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GOOD MAN": Goman. (references) |
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Screenplays | He's a good man. (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt) Dolores, you need to find yourself a good man. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit; writing credit: Gary K. Wolf; Jeffrey Price) You're a good man, Ghost. (Enter the Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Fred White was a brave lawman, a loving husband and father, a loyal friend and a good man which you, Curly Bill Brocius, are not. (Wyatt Earp; writing credit: Dan Gordon; Lawrence Kasdan) Are you in danger of becoming a good man, Proximo? (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) | |
Lyrics | And it's hard to keep a good man down (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel) I've seen a good man sin (What It's Like; performing artist: Everlast) Some say he was a good man (Something To Believe In; performing artist: Poison) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Charlie Brown You're a Good Man (1973) God's Good Man (1919) A Bad Little Good Man (1917) The Almost Good Man (1917) A Good Man in Africa (1994) | |
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 | We've lost a good man!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 'Tis the season to be jolly, my good man! We won - did you know that? Capitalism is triumphant. Communism lies in ruins. Our system prevails! We won! Smile!' / / Oliphant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Good man, good gun: a private of the armored forces does some practice shooting with a 30-calibre Browning machine gun, Fort Knox, Ky. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Addison | Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. |
Author Unknown | A good man dies when a boy goes wrong. |
Brigham Young | A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. |
Euripides | When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him. |
Louis Auchincloss | Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. |
Marcus Portius Cato | An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. |
Plutarch | It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. |
Publilius Syrus | It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man. |
William James | The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At the first view, and to one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing more than a good man. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "GOOD MAN". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ish-tob | N/A | Biblical | Good man |
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Expression using "GOOD MAN": my good man. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "GOOD MAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri i mirë (do gooder, topper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عزيزي (my good man, sugar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | výbornì (finely, good, good for you, great, very well, well done, wonderfully), to jsi chlapík. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | mon chéri (my good man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | férje (her good man). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 心は良い" (a good man at heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"はよいおと" (a good man at heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodgay anmay om cumsecade. (various references) iyi adam (good guy, topper, trump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 5, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | MoliV gar uper dikaiou tiV apoqaneitai uper gar tou agaqou taca tiV kai tolma apoqanein |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vix enim pro iusto quis moritur nam pro bono forsitan quis et audeat mori |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Swiðe seldon wile man for þæm rihtwisan feallan, þeah for godan eaðe durre man sweltan. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For vnnethis dieth ony man for the iust man; and yit for a good man perauenture summan dar die. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Yet scace will eny man dye for a rightewes man. Paraventure for a good ma durst a man dye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 5, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Talagsa ra nga adunay magpakamatay alang sa uban, bisan pa alang sa usa ka tawong matarung-- hinoon aduna gayud kahay mangako sa pagpakamatay alang sa usa ka maayong tawo. |
| Chinese | 為 義 人 死 、 是 少 有 的 、 為 仁 人 死 、 或 者 有 敢 作 的 。 |
| Croatian | Zbilja, jedva bi tko za pravedna umro; možda bi se za dobra tko i odvažio umrijeti. |
| Danish | Næppe vil nemlig nogen dø for en retfærdig - for den gode var der jo måske nogen, som tog sig på at dø -, |
| Dutch | Want nauwelijks zal iemand voor een rechtvaardige sterven; want voor den goede zal mogelijk iemand ook bestaan te sterven. |
| Finnish | Tuskinpa kukaan käy kuolemaan jonkun vanhurskaan edestä; hyvän edestä joku mahdollisesti uskaltaa kuolla. |
| French | A peine mourrait-on pour un juste; quelqu`un peut-être mourrait-il pour un homme de bien. |
| German | Nun stirbt kaum jemand um eines Gerechten willen; um des Guten willen dürfte vielleicht jemand sterben. |
| Haitian Creole | Se pa fasil pou ou jwenn yon moun asepte mouri pou yon nonm ki gen rezon. Ou ta ka jwenn yonn konsa ki ta gen kouraj mouri pou yon nonm debyen. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Untuk seseorang yang adil pun sukar orang mau mati. Barangkali untuk seseorang yang baik, ada juga orang yang berani mati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena jarang sangat seorang mau mati karena orang yang benar. Barangkali karena orang yang baik ada juga orang yang berani mati. |
| Maori | E mate whakauaua hoki tetahi mo te tangata tika: tera pea ia tetahi e maia rawa kia mate mo te tangata pai. |
| Norwegian | For neppe vil nogen gå i døden for en rettferdig - for en som er god, kunde kanskje nogen ta sig på å dø - |
| Portuguese | Porque dificilmente haverá quem morra por um justo; pois poderá ser que pelo homem bondoso alguém ouse morrer. |
| Rumanian | Pentru un om neprihqnit cu greu ar muri cineva; dar pentru binefqcqtorul lui, poate cq s`ar gqsi cineva sq moarq. |
| Shuar | Shuar Chíkich shuaran uwemtikratniun ¿jaruktatuak? Pénker shuar ain jarukchattawai. Kame ti penkeraitkiuinkia jarukchaintiash. |
| Spanish | Difícilmente muere alguno por un justo. Con todo, podría ser que alguno osara morir por el bueno. |
| Swahili | Si rahisi mtu kufa kwa ajili ya mtu mwadilifu; labda mtu anaweza kuthubutu kufa kwa ajili ya mtu mwema. |
| Swedish | Näppeligen vill ju eljest någon dö ens för en rättfärdig man -- om nu ock till äventyrs någon kan hava mod att dö för den som har gjort honom gott -- |
| Uma | Hi gau' manusia', molaka tarua' tauna to dota mate mposampei doo-na to uma masala'. Ane doo-na toe tauna to lompe' lia nono-na, meka' ria moto nte hadua to daho' mate mposampei-i. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goodman. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-m-n-o-o" | |
-2 letters: among, dogma, donga, gonad, mango, monad, mondo, mongo, nomad. | |
-3 letters: agon, dago, damn, dang, dona, dong, doom, goad, good, goon, mano, moan, mono, mood, moon, noma, ogam. | |
-4 letters: ado, ago, and, dag, dam, dog, dom, don, gad, gam, gan, goa, god, goo, mad, mag, man, moa, mod, mog, mon, moo, nag, nam, nod. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-m-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: ondogram. | |
+2 letters: ondograms. | |
+3 letters: doomsaying, endogamous, monogramed. | |
+4 letters: boomeranged, doomsayings, gonadectomy, monogrammed, monographed, motorcading, nondogmatic. | |
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