Definitions
A farewell or expression of goodbye.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The sails of fat-bellied ships go upward and flap signalling that time has come to bid adieu to the voyagers.”
“We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“French farewell”5 letters
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