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goodbye

[good-bahy]

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interjection

farewell (a conventional expression used at parting).

noun

a farewell.

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Also, good·bye.

Origin:
1565–75; contraction of God be with ye

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Example Sentences

Then, after two kisses goodbye at the schoolhouse door, she heads back home to work.

Last month they thanked their foreign allies and bid them goodbye.

Say goodbye to fumbling with your map, having to take off your pack to get it out and have it exposed to the elements.

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Then, after two kisses goodbye at the schoolhouse door, she heads back home to work.

Last month they thanked their foreign allies and bid them goodbye.

Say goodbye to fumbling with your map, having to take off your pack to get it out and have it exposed to the elements.

Yah, ridiculous when the alternative is to simply kiss the species goodbye.

And if officers think a reporter has violated any of those rules, the journo can kiss future coverage goodbye.

We get things done in two or three hours and then it's goodbye.

They can kiss any more predictions from seismologists goodbye.

Say goodbye to hard disk space and low-light sensitivity.

Further, much larger amounts of land would have to be cultivated so say goodbye to any nearby forests or open spaces.

Eventual tie-in with loyalty cards means saying goodbye to myriad stamp cards.

And so goodbye high fructose corn syrup, hello corn sugar.

Say goodbye to traffic jams and keep your car for occasional necessary long runs.

Find another card with a lower interest rate and tell the bastards goodbye.

The astronauts get suited up, wave goodbye to staff members and family and head for.

Her children and many of her grandchildren were able to say goodbye.

Goodbye tiered internet, hello tiered postal service.

She kept her faculties to the end and could say goodbye to us.

The final scene is of the son waving goodbye from the rear window of the bus that is taking him off to.

If the research progresses, soldiers could wind up saying goodbye to many of the bulky batteries that weigh down their rucksacks.

Research has also shown that kids do better with a short goodbye than with a long-drawn-out one.

Mandel might have felt he owed a heartfelt goodbye to all the people he had wrangled with for nearly a decade.

Otherwise, they revoke your degree and you can kiss your chances on the job market goodbye.

The guy delivering firewood to my house during this out-of-body experience didn't even say goodbye.

If you complain or appeal, they label you a trouble maker and you can really kiss your career goodbye.

Any hesitation on their part and they can kiss it all goodbye.

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World English Dictionary

goodbye (ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ)

—*sentence substitute*
1.	farewell: a conventional expression used at leave-taking or parting with people and at the loss or rejection of things or ideas

—n
2.	a leave-taking; parting: they prolonged their goodbyes for a few more minutes
3.	a farewell: they said goodbyes to each other

[C16: contraction of God be with ye]

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Word Origin & History

good-bye

1591, from godbwye (1573), itself a contraction of God be with ye, infl. by good day, good evening, etc.

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