good-by

Speech parts

1. good-by - Noun

2. good-by - Interjection

Meaning

Alt. of Good-bye

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bye-bye sayonara adios good-bye adieu goodby goodbye bye cheerio au revoir arrivederci auf wiedersehen ciao later farewell
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Antonyms

hello hi bello long time no see how are you ayoo
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Hypernyms

farewell word of farewell

Examples

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. Ernest Hemingway

... most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by. Jack Kerouac

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. John Steinbeck

Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one's neighbor fall off his roof. Lin Yutang

And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep- And good-by to the bar and its moaning. Charles Kingsley

One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status. Maria Montessori

Close letter words and terms

good-ass good-bad good-brother good-bye good-byer good-contioned