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Good Person

Definition: Good Person

Good Person

Noun

1. A person who is good to other people.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Antonym: bad person (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Good Person

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm a good person, but you are a great person (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)

Just one thing: He's not a good person. (Metropolitan; writing credit: Whit Stillman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Good Person

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Books

  • Bertolt Brecht's "The Good Person of Szechuan": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • I Try to Be a Good Person (reference)

  • The Good Person of Szechwan (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Spoken Usage: Good Person

SpeakerPhrase(s)

David Berkowitz

I feel that God has made me a good person, a decent person. I was not always a good person, and there's a part of everyone that has a propensity to do bad. Even today, I know I could choose to do bad but I don't want to.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Good Person

Language Translations for "good person"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

buono (good, nice, okay, bill). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

善玉 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぜんだま. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodgay ersonpay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Good Person

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-n-o-o-o-p-r-s"

-1 letter: gonopores, prognosed.

-2 letters: godroons, gonopore, prognose.

-3 letters: drongos, godroon, noodges, oospore, operons, orgones, ponders, presong, pronged, respond, snooped, snooper, sponged, sponger, spooned, spoored.

-4 letters: donors, dopers, drones, drongo, droops, genros, godson, goners, goosed, groped, gropes, nodose, noodge, noosed, nooser, odeons, operon, orgone, pedros, pengos, person, ponder, ponged, pornos, porose, prongs, prosed, redons, rodeos, rondos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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