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good bye

good bye is the alternative form of goodbye.

Meaning of goodbye

Interjection

  1. Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
    • Goodbye! - Goodbye, Anna.2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    Synonyms:
    adieu, farewell, bye, bye-bye, catch you later, mind how you go, ya, you, you in the funny papers, so long

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Questions about good bye

What is good bye the alternative form of?
Good bye is the alternative form of goodbye.

Words near good bye in the dictionary

  1. good boy
  2. good boys
  3. good boys deserve fudge always
  4. good breath
  5. good breaths
  6. good bye
  7. good cause
  8. good causes
  9. good cess
  10. good cholesterol
  11. good cholesterols

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Adapted from Wiktionary: good bye (page history and authors); goodbye (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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