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GOOD PART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good part mean? 

GOOD PART (noun)
  The noun GOOD PART has 1 sense:

1. a place of especial strengthplay

  Familiarity information: GOOD PART used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GOOD PART (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A place of especial strength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("good part" is a kind of...):

strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)

Antonym:

weak part (a place of especial vulnerability)


 Context examples 


No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The good part about having so much to do is that you will make good money now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I give you my hand upon that; and I thank you again and again; and I will just add one little word, Utterson, that I’m sure you’ll take in good part: this is a private matter, and I beg of you to let it sleep.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He accompanied me a good part of the way; and when we parted, with a prayer for the success of this fresh effort, there was a new and thoughtful compassion in him that I was at no loss to interpret.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The good part about having Mercury retrograde now in November is that for the first time in years, you won’t have Mercury retrograde in the holiday travel and shopping season.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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