Definition of "good word" [good word]

• Commendation; favorable account. (noun)

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• "He'd received a phone call yesterday from a Father Grady, Shelley's assistant or bum-boy or whatever, suggesting that a show of penitence might motivate certain powerful parties to put a good word in with previous and potential employers."
• "He was known to be a very useful servant to them, especially in the night (when he was fierce as a lion; but in the day the gentlest, lovingest creature that could be), and, as they said, all the neighbours had a good word for this dog."
• "I felt very proud yesterday when I read T. R.'s good word in the"