GOOD TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good time mean? 

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

1. a highly pleasurable or exciting experience

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A highly pleasurable or exciting experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blast; good time

Context example:

celebrating after the game was a blast

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

experience (an event as apprehended)

 Context examples 

We are evidently in good time, and when we hear of the Czarina Catherine we shall be ready.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"An' I bet," Martin dashed on, that he's solemn an' serious as an old owl, an' doesn't care a rap for a good time, for all his thirty thousand a year.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It’s also not a good time to sign a contact.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why, I was thinking that this evening would be a good time, Steerforth, when they are all sitting round the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“An’ now we make good time. No more Spitz, no more trouble, sure.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

On Tuesday there was a large party assembled at Longbourn; and the two who were most anxiously expected, to the credit of their punctuality as sportsmen, were in very good time.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But the other bird sneered at him for being a poor simpleton, who did all the hard work, while the other two stayed at home and had a good time of it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They are also a good time to catch or prevent problems.

(Children's Health, NIH)

“Truly you came in good time, honored sir,” said he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We'll have a good time ourselves, and add an extra relish to our own pleasure by giving other people a generous taste.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)