Etymology

au revoir

Today it means: Goodbye; till we meet again. Full definition →

French au revoir
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  1. French · borrowed fromau revoir
  2. English todayau revoir

Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.