bid adieu

verb

To say goodbye (to), to bid farewell.

“Ladies, gentlemen, I bid you adieu.”

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Meanings

verbbid adieu (third-person singular simple present bids adieu, present participle bidding adieu, simple past bade adieu, past participle bidden adieu)

present singular third person bids adieu · participle present bidding adieu · past bade adieu · participle past bidden adieu

  1. ambitransitiveTo say goodbye (to), to bid farewell.

    Ladies, gentlemen, I bid you adieu.

    2 more examples

    Now Harold felt himself at length alone, / And bade to Christian tongues a long adieu; […]

    1812, Lord Byron, “Canto II”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XLII, page 82

    “Do Veniam,” said his Superior; and the old man seized, with a trembling hand, a beverage to which he had been long unaccustomed, drained the cup with protracted delight, as if dwelling on the flavour and perfume, and set it down with a melancholy smile and shake of the head, as if bidding adieu in future to such delicious potations.

    1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 345–346
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