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GOOD AUTHORITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does good authority mean?
• GOOD AUTHORITY (noun)
The noun GOOD AUTHORITY has 1 sense:
1. testimony by someone who should know
Familiarity information: GOOD AUTHORITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Testimony by someone who should know
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
I have it on good authority
Hypernyms ("good authority" is a kind of...):
testimonial; testimony (something that serves as evidence)
Context examples
Have you good authority for what you say?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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