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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Goodman

Good′man (·măn), n. [Good + man]

1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" — sometimes used ironically. [Obs.]

With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak.

2. A husband; the master of a house or family; — often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber ? Mark xiv. 14.

☞ In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.