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Definition: Good Deal |
Good DealNoun1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Good deal, Great deal. This idiom is defended by some authorities as being in perfectly good use, and by others it is denounced as being incorrect. Both good deal and greet deal are somewhat colloquial, and should be used sparingly in writing. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: Good DealSynonyms: batch (n), deal (n), flock (n), great deal (n), hatful (n), heap (n), lot (n), mass (n), mess (n), mickle (n), mint (n), muckle (n), peck (n), pile (n), plenty (n), pot (n), quite a little (n), raft (n), sight (n), slew (n), spate (n), stack (n), tidy sum (n), wad (n), whole lot (n), whole slew (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Good Deal |
| English words defined with "good deal": deal ♦ extend ♦ offer ♦ sensible. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "good deal": Bling Bling ♦ Great deal ♦ Had better ♦ Owe ♦ Wages of Sin, Would better. (references) |
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Screenplays | I know a good deal more about you than you suspect (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) | |
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 | USS Birmingham (CL-62), at left, and a destroyer pull away from USS Princeton (CVL-23) following the big explosion that destroyed the carrier's stern at about 1523 hrs. on 24 October 1944. This blast killed over two hundred men aboard Birmingham, which was alongside Princeton fighting fires. Note the light smoke over Birmingham's midships and stern areas. Princeton's stern, and a good deal of her after superstructure, has been blown off. Credit: NAVY. |  | Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown company timber holdings in Maine. Although a good deal of wood is left as a "rear," the jam on Dennison Bog Brook has been broken. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Charles Darwin | I am not very skeptical... a good deal of skepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time, but I have met not a few men, who... have often thus been deterred from experiments or observations which would have proven servicable. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I have often talked to her a good deal. |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Alice was glad to see that it revived him a good deal. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I suffer a good deal in my left paw, I am broken with my rheumatism, but I am content, citizens |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | When I attended the King after my recovery, to return him thanks for his favors, he was pleased to rally me a good deal upon this adventure |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. |
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Economic History | Guinea | Currently, the chamber has a light caseload, but it has inspired a good deal of confidence. (references) |
Travel | Brazil | Business people, travelers, and residents spend a good deal of time among the four most important cities -- Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, and Belo Horizonte. (references) |
Indonesia | Some Indonesians are traditional in culture, others may be considerably "Westernized." Many Indonesians do not conduct business transactions or make decisions in the same direct fashion Americans do, so U.S. business people should be prepared to spend a good deal of time with clients before getting down to the business transaction. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities. |
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Tom Daschle | I don't think it's inevitable, frankly, and that's also a concern. I don't know that it has to be addressed in the resolution, per se. I think there has to be a good deal of priority and attention given to it. |
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Expressions using "good deal": a good deal ♦ a good deal of ♦ it matters a good deal to me ♦ we have a good deal to do. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "good deal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | عقد موفق, إتفاق رائع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 好些 (a good deal of, quite a lot). (various references) | |
Czech | máme moc práce (we have a good deal to do). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuntuvasti enemmän (a good deal more, much more), sangen paljon (a good deal, a great many), melko paljon (a good deal), koko joukon (a good deal, a great deal, quite a lot), aika paljon (a good deal, a lot, quite a lot), aika lailla (a good deal). (various references) | |
French | bonne transaction (good buy), bonne opération (good buy), bon contrat. (various references) | |
German | ziemlich viel (a good deal, quite a lot). (various references) | |
Greek | πολύς (a good deal of, a great deal of, a lot of, much). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sokkal (a good deal, ever so much, much). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 大部 (a good deal, fairly, greater, most, much). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいぶ (a good deal, fairly, greater, most, much), だいぶ (a good deal, a lot, considerably, fairly, greater, greatly, most, much). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodgay ealday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quantidade (quantity, amount), muito (much, very, quite), bastante (enough, quite, rather, sufficient, sufficiently). (various references) | |
Romanian | foarte mult (a good deal of, a great deal of, dearly, excessively, far and away, fat job, greatly, largely), are mare importanţã pentru mine (it matters a good deal to me). (various references) | |
Russian | много (a good deal, a lot of, plenty). (various references) | |
Scottish | dòrlach (a good deal, a handful, handful, sheaf of). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mnogo (deal: a good deal, deal: a great deal, deal: a great deal of, great, lot, lot: a lot of, lots of, many, much, multi, plenty, plenty of, quite a few, vastly, very). (various references) | |
Spanish | una gran cantidad (a good deal, a great deal), mucho (much, a lot of, plenty of), bastante (enough, quite, rather, some, sufficient, sufficiently, a little, somewhat). (various references) | |
Swedish | åtskilligt (a good deal). (various references) | |
Turkish | iyi iş, idare eder (o.k., ok, okay, so so), fena değil (all right, not bad, passable, so so). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-l-o-o" | |
-2 letters: doodle, gaoled, goaded, goaled, loaded, lodged, ogdoad. | |
-3 letters: addle, dedal, dodge, doled, glade, laded, lodge, looed, ogled. | |
-4 letters: aged, aloe, dado, dago, dale, dead, deal, dodo, doge, dole, eddo, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gaol, geld, glad, gled, goad, goal, gold, good, lade, lead, load, lode, loge, logo, odea, ogle, olea, oleo. | |
-5 letters: add, ado. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-g-l-o-o" | |
+5 letters: dendrological. | |
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