Good nightとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• good-night (archaic)
• goodnight
• g'night (colloquial)

語源

Probably a shortening of "May you have a good night."

発音

成句

good night

1. A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep.
2. (colloquial, dated) Expressing incredulity.
   • 1920, William Darling Lyell, The House in Queen Anne Square: A Tale, page 34:

     […] peculiarities of your law always interest me. What is 'legitim'?"
     "Oh! Good-night!" I said derisively.
     "But I am in dead earnest, and really want to know," he added with a perfectly serious face; "I have a small bet on."

   • 1954, Franklin W. Dixon, The Yellow Feather Mystery:

     Together they pried into the sodden mass, yanking out what was left of the record books.
     "Oh, good night!" Joe moaned in dismay. "The fire extinguisher liquid has messed up what the fire didn't."

同意語

• night
• night night

等位語

• good afternoon
• good day
• good evening
• good morning

派生語

• goodnight (noun), good-night (verb)
• goodnight Vienna

関連する語

• nighty night

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: kuneti

アナグラム

• Good Thing

成句

goodnight

1. Alternative spelling of good night
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 2:

     I pray you ſpeake not: he growes worſe & worſe / Queſtion enrages him: at once, goodnight.

   • 1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lodge 341, Vermissa”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 27 February 1915, →OCLC, part II (The Scowrers), page 213:

     So goodnight to you—and goodnight, Councilor.

   • 1932, Goodnight, Vienna:

派生語

名詞

goodnight (plural goodnights)

1. An instance of saying “good night”; a nighttime farewell.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Adam Bede […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     At last the pupils had all taken their hats and said their “Goodnights,” and Adam, knowing his old master's habits, rose and said, “Shall I put the candles out, Mr. Massey?”

   • 1873, E. H. D. Kay, Emma Simonet, Twilight Stories, page 153:

     The afternoon passed into evening, and the sparrows began to twitter their goodnights in their lodgings on the roof and crevices of the chimney; […]

   • 1919, Monica M. Gardner, The Anonymous Poet of Poland: Zygmunt Krasinski, page 114:

     George wakes, hearing the confused goodnights of the departing guests.

   • 1999, Wanda Coleman, Mambo Hips and Make Believe: A Novel, →ISBN, page 100:

     Ray and Josh spoke their goodnights.

動詞

goodnight (third-person singular simple present goodnights, present participle goodnighting, simple past and past participle goodnighted)

1. Alternative spelling of good-night
   • 1961 January 29, Annie Kendall, “Parade Rest”, in The Christian: International Weekly of the Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ), volume 99, number 5, St. Louis, Mo.: The Christian Board of Publication, page (155) 27:

     With each one goodnighted / Including the pup, / Baby is sleeping / Bottom up.

   • 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, “After you with the pistol”, in The Mortdecai Trilogy, Black Spring Press, published 1991, pages 338–339:

     Then he goodnighted me, I changed into pyjamas and in a trice was sleeping the sleep of the unjust, which is quite as dreamless as the sleep of the just if the unjust sleeper has a litre of Red Hackle on his bedside table.

   • 2010 fall, Jo Laskowski, “Hardy Fern Foundation Garden Tour, August 2010”, in Hardy Fern Foundation Quarterly, volume 20, number 4, page 85:

     After eight hours of intense viewing, o-o-hing, and scribbling down plant names and ideas, a spent group of participants returned to our cars, goodnighted, and went our separate ways.

アナグラム

• Good Thing