adieu

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a·dieu

(ə-dyo͞o′, ə-do͞o′)

interj.

Used to express farewell.

n. pl. a·dieus or a·dieux (ə-dyo͞oz′, ə-do͞oz′)

A farewell.

[Middle English, from Old French a dieu, (I commend you) to God : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + Dieu, God (from Latin deus; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots).]

adieu

(əˈdjuː; French adjø)

sentence substitute, n, pl adieus or adieux (əˈdjuːz; French adjø)

goodbye; farewell

[C14: from Old French, from a to + dieu God]

a•dieu

(əˈdu, əˈdyu)

interj., n., pl. a•dieus, a•dieux.

good-bye; farewell.

[1325–75; < Middle French, literally, to God; compare adios]

adieu

A French word for farewell. The literal meaning is (I commend you) to God.

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Noun

adieu - a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes"

bye-bye, cheerio, good day, goodby, good-by, goodbye, good-bye, sayonara, so long, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye

farewell, word of farewell - an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting

adieu

noun goodbye, parting, farewell, leave-taking, valediction, congé We said our adieus and left.

adieu

noun

A separation of two or more people:

farewell, good-bye, leave-taking, parting, valediction.

Translations

Adieu auf Wiedersehen grüß Gott tschüss

adiós

adieufarewell

agyő

zbogom

adieu

[əˈdjuː]

A. EXCL → ¡adiós!

B. N (adieus or adieux (pl)) [əˈdjuːz] (frm) → adiós m
to bid adieu to [+ person] → despedirse de; [+ thing] → renunciar a, abandonar
to say one's adieus or adieux → despedirse

adieu

(old, liter)

n → Adieu nt, → Lebewohl nt (old); to say one’s adieus → Adieu or adieu sagen (old), → Abschied nehmen

interj → adieu (old); to bid somebody adieu → jdm Adieu or adieu or Lebewohl sagen (old)

adieu

[əˈdjuː] n → addio

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On the second morning thereafter, Phoebe might have been seen, in her straw bonnet, with a shawl on one arm and a little carpet-bag on the other, bidding adieu to Hepzibah and Cousin Clifford.

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For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.

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I held no communication with him: still, I was conscious of his design to enter, if he could; and on the Tuesday, a little after dark, when my master, from sheer fatigue, had been compelled to retire a couple of hours, I went and opened one of the windows; moved by his perseverance to give him a chance of bestowing on the faded image of his idol one final adieu.

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Adieu, adieu, adieu," she said, without the soul communicating one single intelligent inflexion to the word.

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His present pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention, the first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired; and in his manner of bidding her adieu, wishing her every enjoyment, reminding her of what she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their opinion of her-- their opinion of everybody-- would always coincide, there was a solicitude, an interest which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced that, whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.

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Embrace your friend and bid him adieu, sir; he is returning to Holland.

D'Artagnan embraced Athos, and only had time to bid him adieu.

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He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.

See, only, that I have not been base, and that I have come to bid thee this last adieu.

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As the Hammersmith Semiramis spoke, she waved one hand, both by way of adieu, and to give Miss Sharp an opportunity of shaking one of the fingers of the hand which was left out for that purpose.

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Doctor Who BBC1, 8pm DRAMA It's been a cracking series but it's time to bid adieu to Peter Capaldi's Doctor.

CHOICE; DECEMBER 5 SATURDAY

Grandmothers now in Wisconsin or Leeds unaware of the Curzon's adieu by Gordon Hill, Huyton