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1. 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"

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1. goodbye(Noun)

   An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone.

   John gave Rebecca a goodbye to wish her luck on her holiday.

2. goodbye(Interjection)

   farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker or writer or person addressed is departing.

Origin: From earlier Godby, Godby'e, Godbwye, God b'w'y, God bwy yee, God buy you, God be wi' you: each a progressively shorter contraction of , with change of God to good by confusion with good morning, good day, etc.

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1. Goodbye

   "Goodbye" is a song by the Spice Girls, later included on their third studio album, Forever. It was released by Virgin Records on 14 December 1998 as a Christmas single, along with a previously unreleased song, "Christmas Wrapping". The song was written by the Spice Girls, Richard Stannard, and Matt Rowe, and is the group's first song without the vocals of Geri Halliwell.

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'goodbye' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4069

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of goodbye in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of goodbye in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Gloria Shayne:

   Goodbye cruel world.

2. Roger Zelazny:

   Goodbye, and hello, as always.

3. Mohamed Abdeslam:

   They left without saying goodbye.

4. Min Yong Lee:

   I left them without saying goodbye.

5. Nina Zippay:

   If this is really the end, it's a nice goodbye.

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