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goods

good
G g

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [goo d]
    • /gʊd/
    • /ɡʊdz/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [goo d]
    • /gʊd/

Definitions of goods word

  • adjective goods morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man. 1
  • adjective goods satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree: a good teacher; good health. 1
  • adjective goods of high quality; excellent. 1
  • adjective goods right; proper; fit: It is good that you are here. His credentials are good. 1
  • adjective goods well-behaved: a good child. 1
  • adjective goods kind, beneficent, or friendly: to do a good deed. 1

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Origin of goods

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English (adj., adv., and noun); Old English gōd (adj.); cognate with Dutch goed, German gut, Old Norse gōthr, Gothic goths

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Goods

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

goods popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

goods usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for goods

noun goods

  • property — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
  • furnishingsfurnishings. furniture, carpeting, etc., for a house or room. articles or accessories of dress: men's furnishings.
  • furniture — the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
  • gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.

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