What does adieu mean?
Adieu means Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye..
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/əˈdju/ · interjection
Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye..
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.
The sails of fat-bellied ships go upward and flap signalling that time has come to bid adieu to the voyagers.
We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.
As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
At the of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.
Use adieu when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adieu means Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye..
Common synonyms include addio, adios, con dios, con Dios.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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