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good-day (dated)

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good day

(dated, formal) A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.
Synonym: (Australia) g'day

Good day, gentlemen.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 200:
  Good day, and happineſſe, deere Roſalind.
(dated, formal) A dismissal; sometimes used to express annoyance.
Perhaps another time. Good day.
- 2012, Mike Cerrone, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, The Three Stooges (motion picture), spoken by Carbunkle (Ray Collins):
  This is an invitation-only party! Now, good day!

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greeting between sunrise and sunset

Abkhaz: уа, мшы бзиа (wa, mŝə bzja)
Afrikaans: goeiedag
Albanian: mirëdita (sq)
Arabic: نَهَارَك سَعِيد (nahārak saʕīd), مَسَاء اَلْخَيْر (masāʔ al-ḵayr); مَسَاء اَلنُّور (masāʔ an-nūr) (response)
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܵܘܡܵܐ ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ (yāwmā brīḵā)
Armenian: բարի օր (bari ōr)
Aromanian: bunã dzua
Aymara: suma urukiya
Basque: egun on (eu)
Belarusian: до́бры дзень (dóbry dzjenʹ)
Bengali: শুভ দিন (śubho din)
Bikol:
Central Bikol: marhay na aldaw
Breton: demat (br)
Bulgarian: добъ́р ден (dobǎ́r den)
Catalan: bon dia (ca)
Cebuano: maayong adlaw
Chechen: де дика дойла (de dika dojla)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 日安 (zh) (rì'ān), 你好 (zh) (nǐhǎo)
Czech: dobrý den (cs)
Danish: goddag (da)
Dutch: goedendag (nl), goeiedag (nl)
Esperanto: bonan tagon
Estonian: tere päevast (et)
Faroese: góðan dag
Finnish: hyvää päivää (fi), päivää (fi)
French: bonjour (fr)
Frisian:
West Frisian: goeie
Galician: bos días
Georgian: დღე მშვიდობისა (dɣe mšvidobisa)
German: guten Tag (de), Tach
Alemannic German: guete Tag
Greek: καλημέρα (el) (kaliméra)
Greenlandic: kutaa
Hanunoo: mayad pag sirang
Hausa: barka da rana
Hawaiian: aloha awakea
Hebrew: יום נעים (yom na'ím), שָׁלוֹם (he) (shalom)
Hindi: नमस्ते (hi) (namaste) (generic)
Hmong:
White Hmong: nyob zoo
Hungarian: (less formal) jó napot (hu), (more formal) jó napot kívánok (hu)
Icelandic: góðan dag (is)
Ido: bona jorno
Ilocano: naimbag nga aldaw
Indonesian: selamat sore (id), selamat siang (id)
Ingrian: tere päivää, hyvvää päivää
Italian: buon giorno, buongiorno (it)
Iu Mien: yiem longx nyei
Japanese: こんにちは (ja) (konnichi wa), 今日は (ja) (こんにちは, konnichi wa)
Javanese: sugeng siang, sugeng rinten
Kapampangan: mayap a aldo
Karelian: hyviä päiviä, terveh taloih (when entering a house)
Khmer: ថ្ងៃល្អ (tŋay l’ɑɑ), ទិវាសួស្ដី (ti’vie suəsdəy)
Komi:
Komi-Zyrian: бур лун (bur lun)
Korean: 안녕하세요 (ko) (annyeonghaseyo), 안녕하십니까 (annyeonghasimnikka) (honorific), 안녕 (ko) (annyeong) (casual)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: rojbaş (ku)
Latvian: labdien (lv), laba diena (lv)
Lithuanian: labà dienà
Low German:
Paderbornish German Low German: guden Dag, gu'n Dag, gun Dag
Luganda: osiibye otyanno?
Luxembourgish: gudden Dag
Macanese: bôm-dia
Macedonian: добар ден (dobar den)
Malagasy: manao ahoana, tsarandro (mg), tsara andro
Malay: selamat pagi (ms)
Maltese: il-ġurnata t-tajba
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Norwegian: god dag (no)
Ohlone:
Northern Ohlone: HorSe Tuuxi
Ojibwe: boozhoo
Ossetian: дӕ бон хорз (dæ bon xorz) (Iron), дӕ бон хуарз (dæ bon xwarz) (Digoron)
Pannonian Rusyn: добри дзень (dobri dzenʹ)
Persian: روز بخیر (fa) (ruz be-xeyr), وقت بخیر (vaqt be-xeyr), روز خوش (fa) (ruz-e xoš)
Polish: dzień dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom dia (pt)
Quechua: allin p'unchay, allin p'unchaj
Romani: laćho dǐves, dobroj tut (singular), dobroj tumen (plural)
Romanian: bună ziua
Russian: до́брый день (ru) (dóbryj denʹ)
Sami:
Inari Sami: pyeri peivi

Northern Sami: buorrẹ beaivi

Skolt Sami: tiõrv

Southern Sami: buerie biejjie
Scottish Gaelic: latha math
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̏бар да̑н

Latin: dȍbar dȃn
Slovak: dobrý deň
Slovene: dóber dán
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dobry źeń

Upper Sorbian: dobry dźeń
Spanish: buenos días (es), (informal) buenas (es)
Sranan Tongo: odi
Swahili: habari za mchana (noon or afternoon), habari za leo, siku njema
Swedish: god dag (sv)
Tagalog: magandang araw (tl)
Thai: สวัสดี (th) (sà-wàt-dii)
Turkish: iyi günler (tr)
Udmurt: бур нуналэн (bur nunalen)
Ukrainian: до́брий день (dóbryj denʹ), добридень (uk) (dobrydenʹ)
Unami: wëli kishku
Urdu: روز بخیر (roz baxair)
Walloon: bondjoû (wa), diewåde (wa) (old)
Welsh: dydd da
Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)

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