Definitions for goodbye
good·bye

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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 longnoun

   a farewell remark

   "they said their good-byes"

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1. goodbyenoun

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

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

2. goodbyeinterjection

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

3. Etymology: 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 English/Australian soft rock duo Air Supply, from their twelfth album The Vanishing Race. Released as a single in 1993, it was an Adult Contemporary chart hit, peaking at #48. In the UK, the song peaked at #66. The song was more successful in Asia, particularly in the Philippines and Indonesia.

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1. goodbye

   Goodbye is a farewell expression used when parting from someone or leaving a place, indicating a final and permanent departure or ending of a conversation or relationship. It is used to bid farewell, express good wishes, and to bring closure to a social interaction or encounter.

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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.

Matched Categories

1. • Farewell

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

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

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce goodbye?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say goodbye in sign language?

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

Examples of goodbye in a Sentence

1. Foreign Ministry under-secretary Abdallah al-Azraq:

   Sudan formally requested - I formally requested - that UNAMID make an exit strategy. That does not mean it will pack up its things and say goodbye.

2. Robert Smith:

   At the present time you have boxers going around the world trying to qualify for the Olympics. Are you going to say,' thanks very much but goodbye, we are going to have somebody else'.

3. Cassie Laundrie:

   We just went for a couple of hours and we ate dinner and had s'mores around the campfire and left. There was nothing peculiar about it. There was no feeling of grand goodbye. There was no nothing.

4. Lacey Parker:

   He told us if we don't do it, she is going to die for sure. If we do it, she has a 40% chance of surviving, he told us it was an eight- to 10-hour surgery. And he promised us if something happened, that he would let us come say goodbye before he disconnected the tubes.

5. Howard Klein:

   Lithium, nickel and graphite are clean energy metals, if we don't do this, the green agenda is goodbye.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=goodbye
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goodbye
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=goodbye
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=goodbye