GOODBYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goodbye mean? 

• GOODBYE (noun)
  The noun GOODBYE has 1 sense:

1. a farewell remark

  Familiarity information: GOODBYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOODBYE (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 ("goodbye" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

“I feel very unhappy about it,” said the husband, “in case it should not be all right, and he ought to have said goodbye to me.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Say goodbye to delays and miscommunications.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Ha, ha! Never say die, take a pinch of snuff, goodbye, goodbye!" squalled Polly, dancing on her perch, and clawing at the old lady's cap as Laurie tweaked him in the rear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Goodbye!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What has he gone there for, and he never even said goodbye to me!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It's nothing to me, of course, but I should think he would have come and bid us goodbye like a gentleman, she said to herself, with a despairing look at the gate, as she put on her things for the customary walk one dull afternoon.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So he kissed all three, and bid them goodbye.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She was going early, so she bade them all goodbye overnight, and when his turn came, she said warmly, Now, Sir, you won't forget to come and see us, if you ever travel our way, will you?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ah, father, said Hansel, I am looking at my little white cat, which is sitting up on the roof, and wants to say goodbye to me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

For now the shadow of a real trouble had come, the little books were full of help and comfort, and as they dressed, they agreed to say goodbye cheerfully and hopefully, and send their mother on her anxious journey unsaddened by tears or complaints from them.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)