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Definition of Goodbye
1. Noun. A farewell remark. "They said their good-byes"
Generic synonyms: Farewell, Word Of Farewell
Definition of Goodbye
1. Interjection. farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker or writer or person addressed is departing. ¹
2. Noun. An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goodbye
1. a concluding remark or gesture at parting [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goodbye
Literary usage of Goodbye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1875)
"Yet has there stolen long before That sadness through some sweetest strain, "
goodbye, goodbye." Ah love, hear all the thought that grew ; Your great eyes ..."
2. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science: Consisting of Original (1866)
"Oh horrible, oh horrible, most horrible; if thou hast nature in thee stand it
not; oh mother, mother, mother! goodbye—goodbye—goodbye—goodbye—goodbye. ..."
3. Victory: History of the 805th Pioneer Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces by Paul Southworth Bliss (1919)
"goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, A long and weary while, Through all the drab and ...
The more the white miles fly, So keep them till we eome again— goodbye, ..."
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