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Goodman

Goodman \Good"man\, 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.

    Note: 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.

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goodman

n. 1 (context archaic or dialectal English) A familiar appellation of civility. 2 (context archaic or dialectal English) A husband; the master of a house or family.

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Goodman, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 1252
Housing Units (2000): 303
Land area (2000): 0.821891 sq. miles (2.128689 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007588 sq. miles (0.019652 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.829479 sq. miles (2.148341 sq. km)
FIPS code: 28220
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.968057 N, 89.912625 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39079
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Goodman, MS
Goodman
Goodman, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 1183
Housing Units (2000): 501
Land area (2000): 1.283894 sq. miles (3.325271 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.283894 sq. miles (3.325271 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27874
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.741499 N, 94.411054 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64843
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Goodman, MO
Goodman
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Goodman

Goodman may refer to:

  • Goodman (surname)
Goodman (surname)

Goodman is a surname, formerly a polite term of address, used where Mister (Mr.) would be used today. Compare Goodwife. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Al Goodman, Ukrainian-American conductor and composer
  • Alan Goodman, designer for MTV
  • Albert Goodman, British politician
  • Alice Goodman, American poet
  • Alison Goodman, Australian writer
  • Allegra Goodman, American writer
  • Amy Goodman, American broadcast journalist and author
  • André Goodman, American football player
  • Andrew Goodman, Jewish American civil rights activist
  • Anthony Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, British lawyer and political adviser
  • Barbara Goodman, New Zealand politician
  • Benny Goodman, American jazz clarinetist and band leader
  • Billy Goodman, American baseball player with the Boston Red Sox
  • Bobby Goodman, American Army captive in Lebanon
  • Brian Goodman, American actor
  • Brian P. Goodman (died 2013), Canadian lawyer
  • Cameron Goodman, American actress
  • Carolyn Goodman (psychologist), American civil rights advocate
  • Carolyn G. Goodman, educator, Las Vegas, Nevada mayor
  • Charles M. Goodman, American architect
  • Charles "Rusty" Goodman, American singer and songwriter
  • Clive Goodman, British royal reporter
  • David Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Dic Goodman (1920–2013), Welsh poet
  • Dickie Goodman, composer
  • Dody Goodman, American actress
  • Don Goodman, English football player
  • E. Urner Goodman, leader in the Boy Scouts of America
  • Edmund Goodman, British football manager
  • Edwin A. Goodman, Canadian politician
  • Elinor Goodman, British journalist, formerly Political Editor of Channel 4 News
  • Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish American columnist
  • Felicitas Goodman, Hungarian linguist and anthropologist
  • Francis Adam Goodman, German-American politician
  • Frank Goodman, American theatre publicist
  • Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster
  • Geoffrey Goodman (1922–2013), English journalist
  • George Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Godfrey Goodman, British Anglican bishop
  • Helen Goodman, British politician
  • Henry Goodman, British theatre actor
  • Henry Goodman (soldier), United States Civil war veteran, Anderson County Tennessee.
  • Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer
  • Ival Goodman, American baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds
  • Jack Goodman, American politician
  • James Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Jerry Goodman, American violinist
  • John Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Jon Goodman, British footballer
  • Joseph Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Julia Goodman, British portrait painter
  • Julian Goodman, CEO of NBC
  • Ken Goodman, educational researcher
  • Leisa Goodman, Scientologist
  • Len Goodman, dance judge, best known as a panel member on Strictly Come Dancing
  • Linda Goodman, American astrologer and poet
  • Lizbeth Goodman, British academic
  • Louise Goodman, British television presenter
  • Mariama Goodman, British singer
  • Mark Goodman, DJ and MTV VJ
  • Martin Goodman (disambiguation)
  • Morris Goodman, American scientist
  • Nelson Goodman, philosopher
  • Oscar Goodman, American politician
  • Paul Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Percy Goodman, West Indian cricketer
  • Richard Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Rick Goodman, video game developer
  • Roy Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Ruth Goodman
  • Ruth Goodman (historian)
  • Samuel Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Saul Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Scott Goodman, Australian swimmer
  • Shirley Goodman, American R&B singer
  • Steve Goodman, American folk artist
  • Tamir Goodman, American basketball player
  • Vestal Goodman, American gospel singer, wife of Howard
  • Walter Goodman, British painter and author
  • William Goodman (disambiguation), multiple people

:* Billy Goodman (1926–1984), baseball infielder

:* William Ernest Goodman (1879–1949), American cricketer

:* William Meigh Goodman (1847–1928), British Colonial Judge

:* Sir William George Toop Goodman known as W. G. T. Goodman (1872–1961), tramways engineer in South Australia

Fictional characters:

  • Judge Goodman, character from the Judge Dredd comics
  • Woody Goodman, character in the TV series Veronica Mars
Goodman (title)

Goodman was once a polite term of address, used where Mister (Mr.) would be used today. A man addressed by this title was, however, of a lesser social rank than a man addressed as Mister. Compare Goodwife.

The terms were used in England and Puritan New England. They are perhaps best known today as the forms of address used in Arthur Miller's historical fiction The Crucible, and in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown".

Category:Men's social titles

Usage examples of "goodman".

Sir John Fenwick, Smith, and Cook, to say nothing of the corroborative evidence of Goodman, establish beyond doubt that you were accessorily, though perhaps not actively, guilty of high treason--at this period, I say, there can be little doubt that if you were brought to trial--that is, in the course of next week, as I have heard it rumoured--the result would be fatal, such, in short, as we should all deplore.

July 18th, I bowght goodman Welder his hovel, which is in the yard of the howse next me, which I bowght of Mr.

I sent by goodman Thurp of Salford my great letter to the byshop of Lincolne, and one to Mr.

Lord Arlen was drinking caffe which had been brought to him by Goodman Andray a few minutes before.

April 14th, Winifrede Goose, wife of goodman Goose of Tuddington, dowghter of Harry Wyse, eviley tempted, cam to me with her sister.

I blush to say that my venerated ancestor received from Goodman Hancock the painfully exiguous sum of no pounds, no shillings, and sixpence.

If Goodman found out I was cop, Goober would have been exposed at the speed of light.

Goodman Renkin always haggled at length for the best price for his sheep, and it looked like his Goodwife would do no less.

My father worked in the garment district for a company who sold their clothes to Bergdorff Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue and other high-end stores.

Goodman had developed a vaccine for treating many of the viruses which can cause cancer, such as Rous sarcoma and Epstein-Barr.

There needs nae aiths to be sworn afore the session wha is your father, young goodman.

Goodman was obscure, reclusive, and almost totally unknown, when he was hired by Lester Barnstorm, a somewhat tarnished and definitely over-the-hill executive at Marathon Productions.

Tape after tape demonstrated that Barnstorm had contributed only small pieces of the total project, while Goodman had done almost all of the actual writing and programming needed to construct The Solar Ballet interactive reality.

What Barnstorm did not know was that Goodman had wired himself for both sound and video.

Lester Barnstorm had treated Daniel Goodman fairly in the first place.