GOOD-BYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-bye mean? 

• GOOD-BYE (noun)
  The noun GOOD-BYE has 1 sense:

1. a farewell remark

  Familiarity information: GOOD-BYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-BYE (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 ("good-bye" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Good-bye, dear Arthur, if I should not survive this night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little girl a good-bye kiss, and Dorothy thanked her for all the kindness she had shown to her friends and herself.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Well, good-bye, and let us know how you get on.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, my dear, my friend, good-bye for ever in this world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then you and I must bid good-bye for a little while?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Good-bye to the HISPANIOLA; good-bye to the squire, the doctor, and the captain!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

‘Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you once more on the important position which you have been fortunate enough to gain.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Well, Miss Morland,” said he, on finding her alone in the parlour, “I am come to bid you good-bye.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Good-bye; I wish you a pleasant journey to-morrow.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Why, Roddy, lad, you were but a child and we kissed good-bye when last we met; but I suppose we must put you on a different rating now.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)