AU REVOIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does au revoir mean? 

• AU REVOIR (noun)
  The noun AU REVOIR has 1 sense:

1. a farewell remark

  Familiarity information: AU REVOIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AU REVOIR (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 ("au revoir" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

“She might almost personify Britannia,” said he, “with her complete self-absorption and general air of comfortable somnolence. Well, au revoir, Von Bork!”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)