au revoir
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˌəʊ.ɹə.ˈvwɑː/ or IPA: /ɔːɹ.ˈvwɑː/, or pronounced as in French, IPA: /o.ʁə.ˈvwaʁ/ or IPA: /ɔʁ.ˈvwaʁ/.
  • (America) IPA: /ˌoʊ.ɹə.ˈvwɑɹ/
Interjection
  1. Goodbye till we meet again.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:goodbye
    • 2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
      Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars
    • 2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org [https://web.archive.org/web/20050123185851/http://www.omg.org/archives/dtc/msg03667.html]
      After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.
Translations


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary