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bid adieu

bid adieu verb: to say goodbye (to), to bid farewell.

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To say goodbye (to), to bid farewell.
    • Ladies, gentlemen, I bid you adieu.
    • 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...

Forms of bid adieu

third-person singular presentbids adieu
present participlebidding adieu
pastbade adieu
past participlebidden adieu

Questions about bid adieu

What does bid adieu mean?
Bid adieu means to say goodbye (to), to bid farewell.
What part of speech is bid adieu?
Bid adieu is a verb.
What is the past tense of bid adieu?
The past tense of bid adieu is bade adieu.

Words near bid adieu in the dictionary

  1. bicylindrical
  2. bicystronic
  3. bicytopenia
  4. Bicăjel
  5. bid
  6. bid adieu
  7. bid beads
  8. bid defiance to
  9. bid down
  10. bid fair
  11. bid hook

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