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Adieu

//əˈdju// intj, noun

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye.

    "BEATRICE. What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true? Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much? Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of such."

Noun
  1. 1
    A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

    "We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America."

  2. 2
    a farewell remark wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.

Etymology 2

From Middle English adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.

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