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farewelling

farewelling is the present participle and gerund of farewell.

Meaning of farewell

Verb

farewell (third-person singular simple present farewells, present participle farewelling, simple past and past participle farewelled)

  1. To bid farewell or say goodbye.
    • He farewelled viewers with a warm sign-off after each bulletin: "May your news be good news, and goodnight."2009 February 9, Neil Wilson and staff writers, “Tributes for newsman Brian Naylor and wife, killed in fires”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2009

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Questions about farewelling

What is farewelling the present participle and gerund of?
Farewelling is the present participle and gerund of farewell.

Words near farewelling in the dictionary

  1. farewell-to-spring
  2. farewell-to-springs
  3. farewelled
  4. fareweller
  5. farewellers
  6. farewelling
  7. farewells
  8. fareworthy
  9. Farey
  10. Farey sequence
  11. Farey sequences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farewelling (page history and authors); farewell (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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