adieu

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/əˈdju/
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/əˈdju/ · /əˈdu/ · /əˈdjuː/ · /əˈdjɜː/ · /əˈd(j)ɪu̯/ · /əˈd(j)ʌu̯/ · [əˈd(j)ɛʊ̯]

Definition of adieu

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  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.”
    “The sails of fat-bellied ships go upward and flap signalling that time has come to bid adieu to the voyagers.”
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intj

  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.”
    “The sails of fat-bellied ships go upward and flap signalling that time has come to bid adieu to the voyagers.”

noun

  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.”
    “As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house.”
    “Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.”
    “At the of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium.”

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Etymology

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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