GOOD DEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good deal mean? 

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

1. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD DEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

muckle; wad; tidy sum; stack; spate; slew; sight; raft; quite a little; pot; plenty; pile; peck; passel; batch; mountain; mint; mickle; mess; mass; lot; heap; hatful; great deal; good deal; flock; deal

Context example:

a wad of money

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

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

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

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

 Context examples 

When I attended the king after my recovery, to return him thanks for his favours, he was pleased to rally me a good deal upon this adventure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French.

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

With a good deal more of that sort, which I wondered how they knew.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have known a good deal of the profession; and besides their liberality, they are so neat and careful in all their ways!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But we have learned a good deal, you perceive.

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

Say, rather, that he has not thought at all upon serious subjects, which I believe to be a good deal the case.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

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)

It isn't funny, like Jo's story, but I thought about it a good deal as I came home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His mouth certainly looked a good deal compressed, and the lower part of his face unusually stern and square, as the laughing girl gave him this information.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Harriet was very ready to speak of the share he had had in their moonlight walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and obliging.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)