good day
Polite arrival phrase
Good day is a formal greeting or farewell, more common in British English and somewhat old-fashioned in American usage.
As a greeting, it substitutes for good morning or good afternoon: Good day, sir.
As a farewell, it often signals finality or dismissal: I said good day!
The phrase also appears in the Australian G'day.
- howdyInformal rural greeting
- helloCommon spoken greeting
- hiInformal spoken salutation
- bonjourFrench word for hello
- alohaHawaiian multipurpose greeting
top of the morning · salutation · greetings · afternoon · hey · yo · welcome · how do you do · smile · hail · happiness · tip · peace · neighborly · hat · sunshine · fine · sunny
- Pleasantriesplease, thank you, thanks, sorry, excuse me
- Salutationsgreetings, hello, welcome, salutations, how do you do
- sign-offsgoodbye, farewell, bye, see you later, sincerely
- Old Greetingsfare thee well, hail, well met, how now, what ho
- daysMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
- greetingshi, hello, hey, hola, aloha
quality of greeting/farewell
good daydrop dead
Exclamation of hostile dismissal
good riddance · get lost · go away · bad day · buzz off
formality and warmth of social acknowledgment
good daysilence
Total lack of sound
cold stare · brushoff · snub