Adieu

Quick meaning: Adieu is an interjection meaning Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

Meaning

Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

More Meanings

1. A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

Example Sentences

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.

The sails of fat-bellied ships go upward and flap signalling that time has come to bid adieu to the voyagers.

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.

Word Forms

• adieux
• adieus

Synonyms for adieu

Depending on context, synonyms include adios, good-by, good-bye, goodbye, aloha, arrivederci.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sayonara, arrivederci, goodbye, bye-bye, good-bye, bye.

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