adieu
Pronunciation Interjection
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Pronunciation Interjection
- Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- BEATRICE. What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
- Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
- Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
- No glory lives behind the back of such.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- addio, adios, aloha, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, cheers, ciao, farewell, good-by, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, shalom, so long
adieu (plural adieux)
- A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.
- We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.
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