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GOOD TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A highly pleasurable or exciting experience
Example:
celebrating after the game was a blast
Synonyms:
blast; good time
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("good time" is a kind of...):
experience (an event as apprehended)
Context examples:
Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating safely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I am very sorry for it; but really I thought I was in very good time.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Wake Sophie when you go upstairs, under pretence of requesting her to rouse you in good time to- morrow; for you must be dressed and have finished breakfast before eight.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was nearly half-past ten before I had received my message, but a taxicab took me round in good time for my appointment.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You have come in good time to fight our enemy and bring peace to all the animals of the forest once more.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There are a good many other points of detail which will, no doubt, come to light in good time.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The coachman drove round to a minute; another minute brought down the gentleman; and as the lady had, with a most scrupulous fear of being late, been many minutes seated in the drawing-room, Sir Thomas saw them off in as good time as his own correctly punctual habits required.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
‘There is a God in heaven, Mr. Holmes, and that same God who has punished that wicked man will show, in His own good time, that my son’s hands are guiltless of his blood.’
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The roof is good. The walls are thick. He makes a fire that Mobits may be warm. He gives Mobits plenty grub to eat. It is good grub. Never in his all days does Mobits eat so good grub. There is bacon, and bread, and beans without end. Mobits have very good time.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
