FAREWELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farewell mean? 

• FAREWELL (noun)
  The noun FAREWELL has 2 senses:

1. an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting

2. the act of departing politely

  Familiarity information: FAREWELL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAREWELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

farewell; word of farewell

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

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farewell"):

adieu; adios; arrivederci; au revoir; auf wiedersehen; bye; bye-bye; cheerio; good-by; good-bye; good day; goodby; goodbye; sayonara; so long (a farewell remark)

bon voyage; send-off (an organized expression of goodwill at the start of a trip or new venture)

good morning; morning; afternoon; good afternoon (a conventional expression of greeting or farewell)

good night (a conventional expression of farewell)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of departing politely

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

farewell; leave; leave-taking; parting

Context example:

parting is such sweet sorrow

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

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farewell"):

valediction (the act of saying farewell)

 Context examples 

The last I saw, she was waving her hand in farewell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Give him hell for me!” came a final cry, and the two men waved their arms in farewell.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Of her once more stopping, and looking back, and hurrying to Agnes, and giving Agnes, above all the others, her last kisses and farewells.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To-morrow, I leave home for Cambridge: I have many friends there to whom I should wish to say farewell.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The raw morning had broken ere the hot spiced ale had been served round and the last farewell spoken.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In Edward's farewell there was no distinction between Elinor and me: it was the good wishes of an affectionate brother to both.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Henry at a distance—not able even to bid him farewell.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The farewell between herself and Mr. Wickham was perfectly friendly; on his side even more.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)