good morrow

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English

Alternative forms

(noun): good-morrow, goodmorrow

Etymology

From Middle English good morow, good morwe.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡʊd ˈmɒɹəʊ/

Interjection

good morrow

(archaic) Good morning.
- c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. (First Quarto), London: G Eld for R Bonian and H Walley, , published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  Creſ[ſida]. Good morrow vncle Pandarus.
  Pan[darus]. Good morrow cozen Creſſid: what doe you talke of? good morrow, Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were you at Ilium?
- 1705, [John Vanbrugh], The Confederacy. A Comedy. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
  Good Morrow, Neighbour; good Morrow, Neighbour Cloggit; How do's all at your Houſe this Morning?
- 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood , New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons , →OCLC:
  "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."

Noun

good morrow (plural good morrows)

A greeting consisting of the interjection.
(obsolete) Riverhemp, sesban.
- 1797, Joseph Hawkins of New York, A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa: and travels into the interior of that country, , first Edition in Philadelphia page 133 and two editions in Troy by Luther Pratt page 133:
  Among the plants and shrubs that I saw, and could form any knowledge of, were the sisban, or large thorny sensitive plant, sometimes called the good-morrow, these are abundant among the underwoods.

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