ADIEU (adieux)

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Irregular inflected form: adieux   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does adieu mean? 

• ADIEU (noun)
  The noun ADIEU has 1 sense:

1. a farewell remark

  Familiarity information: ADIEU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADIEU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farewell remark

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

adieu; adios; arrivederci; au revoir; auf wiedersehen; bye; bye-bye; cheerio; good-by; good-bye; good day; goodby; goodbye; sayonara; so long

Context example:

they said their good-byes

Hypernyms ("adieu" is a kind of...):

farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)

 Context examples 

We bade adieu to Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle, with many thanks on my part, and much kindness on the devoted mother's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pray make my excuses and adieus to her.” This, Emma could not doubt, was all for herself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Birds twittered their adieux from the alders in the lane, and every tree stood ready to send down its shower of red or yellow apples at the first shake.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Adieu! my cousin; take care of yourself; and, I entreat you, write!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Looking back, he saw that the smaller had mounted on the younger's shoulders, and that they stood so, some ten feet high, waving their adieus to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Wickham's adieus were much more affectionate than his wife's.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Catherine was still unconvinced; but glad that Anne should have the friendship of an Emily and a Sophia to console her, she bade her adieu without much uneasiness, and returned home, pleased that the party had not been prevented by her refusing to join it, and very heartily wishing that it might be too pleasant to allow either James or Isabella to resent her resistance any longer.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; and Edmund began at the same time to recollect that his mother had been inquiring for her, and that he had walked down to the Parsonage on purpose to bring her back.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)