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A GOOD DEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does a good deal mean? 

A GOOD DEAL (adverb)
  The adverb A GOOD DEAL has 1 sense:

1. to a very great degree or extentplay

  Familiarity information: A GOOD DEAL used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


A GOOD DEAL (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To a very great degree or extent

Synonyms:

a good deal; a great deal; a lot; lots; much; very much

Context example:

this would help a great deal


 Context examples 


I don't like my work, but I get a good deal of satisfaction out of it after all, so I won't complain.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We will leave this question undecided and hark back to our morass again, for we have left a good deal unexplored.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And getting a good deal paler than you were—as I saw at first sight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By his description, a good deal like the second size double-barrel of mine, which you shot with one day round Winthrop.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You fill me with interest, I perceive that the ground has been trampled up a good deal.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a book he was regardless of time; and on the present occasion he had a good deal of curiosity as to the event of an evening which had raised such splendid expectations.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

We are bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I understood quite a good deal of First Principles, but his Biology took the wind out of my sails, and his Psychology left me butting around in the doldrums for many a day.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day when Mr. Creakle kept the house from indisposition, which naturally diffused a lively joy through the school, there was a good deal of noise in the course of the morning's work.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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