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ADIEU
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Irregular inflected form: adieux
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A farewell remark
Example:
they said their good-byes
Synonyms:
adieu; adios; arrivederci; au revoir; auf wiedersehen; bye; bye-bye; cheerio; good-by; good-bye; good day; goodby; goodbye; sayonara; so long
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("adieu" is a kind of...):
farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)
Context examples:
The moment he read it, he packed his knapsack, bade adieu to his fellow pedestrians, and was off to keep his promise, with a heart full of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
How cold, how composed were their last adieus!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Adieu, ma cherie! mon coeur est toujours a toi.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not ignobly, Mrs. Micawber and myself cannot disguise from our minds that we part, it may be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
By all their calculations there was just time for this; but as they drew near the Cobb, there was such a general wish to walk along it once more, all were so inclined, and Louisa soon grew so determined, that the difference of a quarter of an hour, it was found, would be no difference at all; so with all the kind leave-taking, and all the kind interchange of invitations and promises which may be imagined, they parted from Captain and Mrs Harville at their own door, and still accompanied by Captain Benwick, who seemed to cling to them to the last, proceeded to make the proper adieus to the Cobb.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Adieu, my dear Margaret.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Adieu! I take up my pen again to do what I have just told you I would not; but circumstances are such that I cannot help earnestly begging you all to come here as soon as possible.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Impatient for the realization of all that he hoped at home, his adieus were not long; and they would have been yet shorter, had he not been frequently detained by the urgent entreaties of his fair one that he would go.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Adieu! my dear sweet Fanny, this is a long letter from London: write me a pretty one in reply to gladden Henry's eyes, when he comes back, and send me an account of all the dashing young captains whom you disdain for his sake.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Adieu, I embrace you tenderly. "Votre Amie."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
