Good Turn

Definition: Good Turn

Good Turn

Noun

1. A favor for someone; "he did me a good turn".

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Literature

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Synonym: Good Turn

Benevolence

Treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit; (goodness); render a service, be of use; aid.

Acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment.

Good

Boon; (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove.

Inexpedience

Produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve.

Crosswords: Good Turn

One good turn deserves another. (One Good Turn; writing credit: H.M. Walker)

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. (references; author: unknown)

One Good Turn (1954)

Pimple's Good Turn (1915)

One Good Turn (1915)

A Good Turn (1911)

One Good Turn Deserves Another (1909)

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Music

• No Good Turn Goes Unpunished (reference)

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Catching that stitch in time, Mrs. Viola Schlaegel of the American Women's Volunteer Service unit at Glendale, California does a good turn for Corporal Hugh B. Helm of Lexington, Kentucky. Members of the American Women's Volunteer Service "Button Brigade". Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "good turn": a good turn ♦ do smb. a good turn ♦ one good turn deserves another ♦ take a good turn ♦ things have taken a good turn. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏مساعدة (aid, assist, assistance, benefit, contribution, grant, help, relief, subsidy, succor, succour, support), ‏توجيه صائب, ‏تغيير موفق. (various references)

Chinese 

人情 (favor; good turn, human emotions, social relationship), 幫忙 (do a favor, do a good turn, givea hand, help). (various references)

Czech

uèinit nìkomu službu (do smb. a good turn, do smb. a service). (various references)

French

bonne correction, bonne changement. (various references)

Greek 

κάνω καλό σε κάποιο (do somebody a good turn). (various references)

Hebrew 

טוב�" (behalf, favour, sake, service). (various references)

Hungarian

jótett (alms deed, benefaction, charity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

善� 善果 (good action lead to good rewards, one good turn deserves another). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"い�"ぜ�"か (good action lead to good rewards, one good turn deserves another). (various references)

Pig Latin

oodgay urntay

Portuguese

um favor paga se com outro (one good turn deserves another). (various references)

Romanian

o faptã bunã meritã rãsplatã (one good turn deserves another), lucrurile s-au schimbat spre bine (things have taken a good turn), face cuiva un serviciu (do smb. a good turn). (various references)

Russian 

услужить (do smb. a good turn, do smb. a service), удружить (do smb. a good turn, do smb. a service), долг платежом красен (one good turn deserves another). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učiniti dobro delo (do smb. a good turn). (various references)

Spanish

favor (a favor, accommodation, behalf, boon, do the favor, Favor, favour, good graces, help, kindness, service). (various references)

Swedish

en stor tjänst (a good turn). (various references)

Turkish

iyi yönde değişmek (take a good turn), iyi davranış (a good turn). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: orotund.

-2 letters: drongo, ground, rotund, trogon, unroot, untrod.

-3 letters: donor, donut, gourd, grout, grunt, odour, outdo, outgo, rondo, round, tondo, ungot.

-4 letters: dong, door, dour, drug, dung, dunt, durn, duro, good, goon, gout, grot, nurd, odor, onto, ordo, rood, root, roto, rout, rung, runt, tong, toon, torn, toro, tour, trod, trug, tung, turd, turn.

+1 letter: groundout.

+2 letters: groundouts.

+3 letters: outdropping.

+4 letters: outorganized, outproducing.

+5 letters: outrebounding, photoreducing, undershooting.