adieu
goodbye; farewell.
the act of leaving or departing; farewell.
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How to use adieu in a sentence
In either case, we can more-or-less bid adieu to Central Europe hosting the games in the coming decades.
Climate change has the Winter Olympics on thin ice | Sara Kiley Watson | January 27, 2022 | Popular-ScienceShe is thinking of an adieu to the world that Sacks wrote in the New York Times in February 2015, shortly after learning he was dying of cancer.
Perspective-changing experiences, good or bad, can lead to richer lives | Sujata Gupta | September 1, 2021 | Science NewsThe renowned author and neurologist drew his inspiration from philosopher David Hume, who had written a similar adieu in 1776.
Perspective-changing experiences, good or bad, can lead to richer lives | Sujata Gupta | September 1, 2021 | Science NewsHis father, who had been jailed in 1990, kissed the forehead of another son before bidding him a final adieu.
It's going to be particularly painful to bid Cohle adieu at the end of True Detective's debut season.
‘True Detective’ Review: You Have to Watch HBO’s Revolutionary Crime Classic | Andrew Romano | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
They were all, from what I could gather, middle-aged women who bid the film adieu at around the five-minute mark.
Inside ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ And The Year’s Most Controversial Sex Scene | Marlow Stern | October 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe shingle recently bid its co-founder and CEO James Schamus adieu, replacing him with FilmDistrict CEO Peter Schlessel.
With Charlie Hunnam Out, Who Will Play Christian Grey in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey?’ | Marlow Stern | October 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut, when Hal is busted for running a Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme, Augie gets wiped out, and Ginger bids him adieu.
Andrew Dice Clay on ‘Blue Jasmine,’ His Alleged Misogyny, and More | Marlow Stern | July 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTChatwin's tone throughout Under the Sun recalls the Duchess of Devonshire's epistolary adieu, "In tearing haste—."
On estoit sur le poinct de faire tabagie ou convive solemnel sur son dernier adieu.
She said adieu to them all very reluctantly, when she returned to the gay Court life at a still early age.
The Childhood of Distinguished Women | Selina A. BowerHenriette, finding all her entreaties in vain, sadly bade her adieu, and was never permitted to see her more.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottI was sorry to leave the count, but was afraid some alarm might be felt at home concerning us, and therefore bade him adieu.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria Grahamadieu, ye lonely banks of the Saône, whose wild beauty could fill my heart with such deep delight.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for adieu
/ (əˈdjuː, French adjø) /
goodbye; farewell
Origin of adieu
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