GOOD PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good person mean? 

• GOOD PERSON (noun)
  The noun GOOD PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who is good to other people

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is good to other people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good person"):

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

brick (a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy)

giver (someone who devotes himself completely)

good egg ((old-fashioned slang) a good person)

mensch; mensh (a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics)

plaster saint (a person (considered to be) without human failings)

rock ((figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable)

angel; holy man; holy person; saint (person of exceptional holiness)

square shooter; straight arrow; straight shooter (a frank and honest person)

sweetheart (any well-liked individual)

trouper (a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working)

Antonym:

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

 Context examples 

I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about the whale-fishing in the old days.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)