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I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
Jane Fonda

Meaning of "goodbye" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GOODBYE

Contraction of God be with ye.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GOODBYE

goodbye  [ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GOODBYE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Goodbye is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GOODBYE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of goodbye in the English dictionary

The first definition of goodbye in the dictionary is farewell: a conventional expression used at leave-taking or parting with people and at the loss or rejection of things or ideas. Other definition of goodbye is a leave-taking; parting. Goodbye is also a farewell.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GOODBYE


aby
əˈbaɪ
abye
əˈbaɪ
blebby
ˈblɛbˈbaɪ
bye-bye
ˈbaɪˈbaɪ
Dubai
duːˈbaɪ
forby
fɔːˈbaɪ
forbye
fɔːˈbaɪ
hereby
ˌhɪəˈbaɪ
inby
ɪnˈbaɪ
inbye
ɪnˈbaɪ
Mumbai
mʊmˈbaɪ
outby
ˌaʊtˈbaɪ
overbuy
ˌəʊvəˈbaɪ
owerby
ˌaʊəˈbaɪ
passers-by
ˌpɑːsəzˈbaɪ
prebuy
priːˈbaɪ
rebuy
riːˈbaɪ
thereby
ˌðɛəˈbaɪ
underbuy
ˌʌndəˈbaɪ
whereby
wɛəˈbaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GOODBYE

good-looking
good-natured
good-naturedly
good-naturedness
good-o
good-oh
good-sized
good-tempered
good-time
good-time girl
goodfaced
goodfellow
goodfellowship
goodie
goodies
goodiness
goodish
goodlier
goodliest
goodlihead

WORDS THAT END LIKE GOODBYE

an eye for an eye
bird´s-eye
by the bye
bye
Debye
dye
easy on the eye
eye
golden goodbye
hook and eye
in the public eye
leg bye
nye
rockabye
see eye to eye
Skye
turn a blind eye
upbye
ye
Zaporozhye

Synonyms and antonyms of goodbye in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GOODBYE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «goodbye» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of goodbye

Translation of «goodbye» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GOODBYE

Find out the translation of goodbye to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of goodbye from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «goodbye» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

再见!
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

¡adiós!
570 millions of speakers

English

goodbye
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अलविदा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وَدَاعاً
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

до свидания!
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adeus!
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

au revoir !
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Selamat tinggal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Auf Wiedersehen!
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

さようなら!
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

안녕!
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pamit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tạm biệt!
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குட்பை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गुडबाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Güle güle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arrivederci!
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

do widzenia!
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

до побачення!
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

la revedere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντίο!
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

totsiens
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

adjö!
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ha det!
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of goodbye

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOODBYE»

The term «goodbye» is very widely used and occupies the 7.929 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOODBYE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «goodbye» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «goodbye» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about goodbye

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10 QUOTES WITH «GOODBYE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word goodbye.
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Berkeley Breathed
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
2
Marcus Buckingham
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
3
Elisabetta Canalis
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
4
Josephine de La Baume
Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.
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Snoop Dogg
It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.
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Jean Dubuffet
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
7
Michael Easton
I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.
8
Tim Federle
'Five, Six, Seven, Nate!' opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in 'E.T.: The Musical.'
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Jane Fonda
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
10
Dennis Franz
I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOODBYE»

Discover the use of goodbye in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to goodbye and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
No Time for Goodbye
Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn ́t over.
Linwood Barclay, 2008
2
Goodbye, Columbus
National Book Award Winner Philip Roth's brilliant career was launched when the unknown twenty-five-year-old writer won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a collection that was to be called Goodbye, Columbus, and which, in turn, ...
Philip Roth, 1989
3
Too Late to Say Goodbye
The definitive unravelling of one of the strangest murder investigations of our time, this is the greatest achievement of a truly great writing career.
Ann Rule, 2008
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing ...
PRAISE FOR I WASN'T READY TO SAY GOODBYE "I highly recommend this book, not only to the bereaved, but to friends and counselors as well.
Pamela D. Blair, Brook Noel, 2008
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What Happened to Goodbye
What Happened to Goodbye is a captivating young adult novel about learning to be true to yourself, from New York Times Number One bestseller Sarah Dessen, author of Just Listen and Lock and Key.
Sarah Dessen, 2011
6
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships ...
More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating.
Joshua Harris, 2012
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Never Say Goodbye: A Medium's Stories of Connecting with ...
Never Say Goodbye will help you learn how to recognize spirit communication and establish an ongoing relationship with those in spirit through simple meditations and other practices.
Patrick Mathews, 2012
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The hello, goodbye window
Looking through the kitchen window, a little girl and her doting grandparents watch stars, play games, and, most importantly, say hello and goodbye.
Norton Juster, Christopher Raschka, 2005
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Goodbye: In Search of Gordon Jenkins
He uncovers the tragic story of how his father came to compose "Goodbye," the mournful song with which Benny Goodman closed all his concerts.
Bruce Jenkins, 2005
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A Long Goodbye to Bismarck?: The Politics of Welfare Reforms ...
Bruno Palier is CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po Paris. --
Bruno Palier, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOODBYE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term goodbye is used in the context of the following news items.
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Iker Casillas waves goodbye to Real Madrid on emotional farewell …
Real Madrid's goalkeeping great Iker Casillas was given an official send-off by Los Blancos on Monday, ahead of his move to Portuguese side ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Abe Foxman says goodbye to an America of secret Jew haters
Read this interview of Abe Foxman, the outgoing director of the Anti-Defamation League, and it's a good thing he's leaving. He is out of a ... «Mondoweiss, Jul 15»
3
Monday soaps: Coronation Street says goodbye to Deirdre Barlow …
There will be tears all over Weatherfield – and probably over most of the UK – as the Street's residents say a final goodbye to Deirdre Barlow ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Juventus Say Goodbye to Carlos Tevez with Goal-Packed Tribute …
With Carlos Tevez returning to his first club, Boca Juniors, after two seasons with Juventus, the Turin side have released a video thanking the ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
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Goodbye heatwave: Wild storms set to bash Britain this week
BRITAIN'S heatwave will come to an end with a wild week of rain and gales. By Nathan Rao. PUBLISHED: 00:01, Mon, Jul 13, 2015 ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Climate Change: Kiss Mussels 'Goodbye'
It's no secret that most climate experts are expecting surface temperatures to rise in the coming years. It was already confirmed earlier this year ... «Nature World News, Jul 15»
7
Cairo says goodbye to actor Omar Sharif
''He was unique, with his voice, with his acting,'' says friend and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawas during the funeral for actor Omar Sharif. «Reuters, Jul 15»
8
These Fla state Sens. can probably kiss their districts goodbye
With the Florida Supreme Court barring congressional districts from extending over waterways — as Castor's extends over Tampa Bay from ... «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
9
Brazenhead: A secret bookstore's long goodbye
The thing about vanishing New York: It's often us who get lost, not the city. For me, New York City was its true self in the years just before 2001. «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
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Ed Sheeran waves goodbye to Wembley Stadium with first major …
Ed Sheeran waves goodbye to Wembley Stadium with first major acting role in friend's TV show. Acting role: Ed Sheeran (Picture: Theo ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»

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