Meanings
- Goodbye; till we meet again.
2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars
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2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org https://web.archive.org/web/20050123185851/http://www.omg.org/archives/dtc/msg03667.html After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.
To feed the family four hot dogs, two beers, two sodas, and a tray of nachos, you can kiss another Ulysses Grant au revoir (hey, you might as well learn a few foreign phrases while studying sports).
2015, David George Surdam, “Economics”, in Trey Strecker, Steven P. Gietschier, Mitchell Nathanson, John A. Fortunato, David George Surdam, Understanding Baseball: A Textbook, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 83Synonyms: adieu, adios, aloha, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, badbye, BCNU, bye
Synonyms & antonyms
interjectionGoodbye; till we meet again.
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Origin
- Frenchau revoir
- Englishau revoir
Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.
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Bulgarian довиждане
- довиждане (doviždane)Translations
Catalan a reveure
- a reveureTranslations
Chinese Cantonese 再見 /再见
- 再見 /再见 (zoi³ gin³)Translations
Chinese Mandarin 再見 /再见
- 再見 /再见 (zàijiàn)Translations
Finnish näkemiin
- näkemiinTranslations
French au revoir
- au revoirTranslations
Greek ορεβουάρ, στο επανιδείν
- ορεβουάρ (orevouár)Translations
- στο επανιδείν (sto epanideín)Translations
Indonesian sampai jumpa, selamat tinggal
- sampai jumpaTranslations
- selamat tinggalTranslations
Japanese また今度
- また今度 (mata kondo)Translations
Malay jumpa lagi
- jumpa lagiTranslations
Polish do widzenia
- do widzeniaTranslations
Portuguese até mais
- até maisTranslations
Spanish adiós, hasta la vista
- adiósTranslations
- hasta la vistaTranslations
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with au revoir
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au revoir. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/au%20revoir
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