Definitions for BYEbaɪ
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
byebaɪ(n.)
Ref: Also, by. 1 1 34
(in a tournament) the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round.
Category: Sport
something subsidiary or secondary.
Ref: by1. 1 1 32 1 1 33
Idioms for bye:
by the bye,by the way; incidentally.
Category: Idiom
Origin of bye:
1710–20; var. sp. of by1 in its n. sense “side way”
byebaɪ(interj.)
or by 1 2
Category: Common Vocabulary
Ref: good-bye.
Origin of bye:
by shortening
bye-
var. of by- :
bye-election.
Category: Affix
Princeton's WordNet
bye, pass(noun)
you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
"he had a bye in the first round"
adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long(noun)
a farewell remark
"they said their good-byes"
Wiktionary
bye(Interjection)
Goodbye: .
Origin: Variant form of by, from bī (being near).
Webster Dictionary
Bye(noun)
a thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication
Bye(noun)
a run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye
Bye(noun)
a dwelling
Bye(noun)
in certain games, a station or place of an individual player
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