adieu

interjectionnounattested in dialogue

United States//əˈdju//

Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

interjection

1
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.

Etymology

From Middle English adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.

noun

1
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.
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.

Forms

plural: adieux, adieus

Adele · A female given name from the Germanic languages.adequate · Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.Adi · A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India and Tibet.

adieu · Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

adios · goodbye Aditya · Any of a group of solar deities, the sons of Aditi and…adjacent · Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering…

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