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Definition: Adieu |
AdieuNoun1. A farewell remark; "they said their good-byes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adieu" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of bidding cheerful adieus to people, denotes that you will make pleasant visits and enjoy much social festivity; but if they are made in a sad or doleful strain, you will endure loss and bereaving sorrow. If you bid adieu to home and country, you will travel in the nature of an exile from fortune and love. To throw kisses of adieu to loved ones, or children, foretells that you will soon have a journey to make, but there will be no unpleasant accidents or happenings attending your trip. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Adieu good-bye. A Dieu, an elliptical form for I commend you to God. Good-bye is God be with ye. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AdieuSynonyms: adios (n), arrivederci (n), au revoir (n), auf wiedersehen (n), bye (n), bye-bye (n), cheerio (n), good day (n), goodby (n), good-by (n), goodbye (n), good-bye (n), sayonara (n), so long (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Departure | Leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian. |
Interjection: begone!; (ejection); farewell! adieu! goodbye! good day! au revoir! fare you well! God bless you! God speed! all aboard! auf wiedersehen! au plaisir de vous revoir! bon voyage! gluckliche Reise! vive valeque! | |
Loss | Interjection: farewell to! adieu to. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adieu |
| English words defined with "adieu": Adieus ♦ Go-by ♦ Trigraph, Triphthong. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adieu": Handkerchiefs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adieu": Adios. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adieu" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (adieu, bye, farewell, goodbye), Dutch (adieu, bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye), French (adieu, bye, farewell, good bye, goodbye, valediction), German (adieu, bye, farewell, goodbye). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Life's not fair, is it? You see, now I, well, I shall never be king. And you shall never see the light of another day. Adieu. (The Lion King; writing credit: Irene Mecchi; Jonathan Roberts) Adieu. (The Maltese Falcon; writing credit: John Huston) A last adieu to his master. (Coup de torchon; writing credit: Jean Aurenche; Bertrand Tavernier) Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain. (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb) | |
Lyrics | Adieu, Emile, it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky. Now that the Spring is in the air ("Seasons in the Sun"; performing artist: Kingston Trio) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Adieu mes quinze ans (1971) Au théâtre ce soir: Adieu Berthe (1970) Adieu l'ami (1968) Petit officier... Adieu! (1930) Adieu Mascotte (1929) | |
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 | Adieu les Amourettes!!... / Ch Philipon.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The judge raised us a courtly adieu.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Soldier's adieu / lith. & pub. by J. Baillie, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining. |
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| "Adieu" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 55.26% of the time. "Adieu" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 55.26% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.74% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adieu": bid a person adieu ♦ bid adieu ♦ Interjection: farewell to! adieu to ♦ take adieu. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adieu b b tattoo | 34 |
adieu | 29 |
adieu le monsieur professor | 15 |
adieu au piano | 5 |
adieu manon notre petite table | 4 |
adieu l | 3 |
adieu candy jolie | 2 |
adieu bebop cowboy | 2 |
adieu comment dire te | 2 |
adieu fair farewell lady spanish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adieu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | adieu (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mirupafshim (au revoir, bye, bye bye, good buy, good bye, so long), lamtumirë (cheerio, farewell, good bye, leave taking, vale, valediction, waygoing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сбогуване (farewell, leave, leave taking, valediction), сбогом (farewell, good bye), прощаване (farewell, leave, leave taking, parting, valediction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再會 (vale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sbohem (bye, bye bye, good bye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | farvel (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vaarwel (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye), adieu (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | adiaŭ (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | farvæl (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyvästi (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye!). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adieu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | farwol (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | adieu (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντίο (beam, cheerio, farewell, goodbye, roller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"תראות (au revoir, be seen, cheerio, farewell, good bye, meet, so long). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | a viszontlátásra (bye, farewell, goodbye), viszontlátásra (au revoir, bye, bye bye, cheerio, farewell, good bye, goodbye, so long), viszlát (bye, bye bye, farewell, goodbye, so long), isten veletek, búcsút vesz valakitõl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | bless (bye, farewell, goodbye, so long). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | slÚn (bye, farewell, goodbye), beannacht (blessing, bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | addio (bye, bye bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lombard | se vedom (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | slane ayd (ave, bye-bye, cheerio, farewell, good afternoon, good afternoon depart, good bye), shee dy row mayrt, dy row mie erriu, bannaghtyn ort, bannaght lhiat (cheerio, farewell), bannaght eu, bannaght ayd (cheerio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | farvel (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | ayo (bye, farewell, goodbye), tanten (bye, farewell, goodbye), so long (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adieuay żegnaj. (various references) adeus (bye, farewell, good bye, goodbye, Vale, valediction). (various references) adio (all over, farewell, good bye, valediction), rãmas bun (farewell, good bye, vale, valediction). (various references) прощайте (farewell, vale), прощание (bye, farewell, good bye, leave, leave taking, leave-taking, parting, valediction). (various references) beannachd leibh (bye, farewell, goodbye), beannachd leat (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) zbogom (farewell, good bye), oproštaj (dispensation, farewell, forgiveness, good bye, parting, shrift, valediction). (various references) adiós (adios, by-by, bye, bye bye, cheerio, farewell, good bye, goodbye). (various references) adyosi (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) kwa herini (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye), kwa heri (bye, farewell, goodbye, good-bye). (various references) farväl (farewell, good bye, goodbye, valediction), adjö (bye, farewell, good bye, goodbye, good-bye). (various references) allahaismarladik (bye, farewell, goodbye), allahaısmarladık (au revoir, good bye, goodbye), hoşça kal (ave, bye bye, cheerio, good bye, goodbye, goodday, ta-ta), gülegüle (bye, farewell, goodbye), elveda (farewell, good bye, goodbye, goodday, Vale). (various references) прощавайте (farewell, good bye), прощайте (bye, bye bye, vale), прощання (adieus, farewell, good bye, leave, valediction). (various references) lời ch o vĩnh biệt, lời ch o từ biệt (good-bye). (various references) ffarwel (farewell). (various references) salani kahle (bye, farewell, goodbye), sala kahle (bye, farewell, goodbye), hambani kahle (bye, farewell, goodbye), hamba kahle (bye, farewell, goodbye). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ave, supervalebit, valeat, valebant, valebat, valebit, valens, valent, valentes, valenti, valentibus, valet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adieu": adieus, adieux. (additional references) | |
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"Adieu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaie, Abdiel, Abihu, Abiru, adae, Addawo, Adea, adeem, adeiu, adeu, adeue, adeui, adian, adie, adiet, Adigun, adinu, adiou, aditex, adiu, adiue, Adiuva, adiwa, adize, Adrie, adue, Aduku, Adygey, aideo, aidey, Aidoo, aidu, Aileu, aimeluk, Aizu, ajeu, Alieu, Atafu, Atibu, atie, axie, azizur, daiu, Eiduk, Gadjiev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adieu" (pronounced uduw") |
| 3 | u d uw" | ado. |
| 2 | -d uw" | dew, do, due, outdo, overdo, overdue, Perdue, redo, subdue, undo, undue. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-u" | |
-1 letter: aide, idea. | |
-2 letters: aid, die, due, dui, eau. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ai, de, ed, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-u" | |
+1 letter: adieus, adieux, audile, dautie, uredia. | |
+2 letters: aliunde, audible, audient, audiles, audited, caducei, daubier, dauties, decidua, deutzia, dualize, gaudier, gaudies, miaoued, miauled, quailed, querida, residua, subidea, unaided, unaimed, unaired, unideal, uranide, uredial. | |
+3 letters: aboideau, acquired, aecidium, altitude, antiqued, aptitude, argufied, attitude, audibles, audience, audients, auditive, auricled, baudekin, buddleia, caudices, daubiest, daubries, dauphine, deciduae, decidual, deciduas, denarius, deutzias, dialogue, diapause, disabuse, dissuade, disvalue, dualized, dualizes, dulcinea, durative, dutiable, edacious, epidural, eupatrid, fatigued, gaudiest, guidable, guidance, guideway, habitude, incudate, indurate, inundate, jaundice, latitude, liquated, maundies, muraenid, muriated, preaudit, quarried, quayside, queridas, radiuses, residual, ruinated, sinuated, situated, subideas, sudaries, unallied, unbiased, unhailed, unhaired, unideaed, unnailed, unpaired, unraised, unrepaid, unvaried, upraised, uranides, uredinia, urinated. | |
+4 letters: aboideaus, aboideaux, acidulate, acidulent, acquitted, adductive, adjustive, admixture, adultlike, altitudes, amplitude, andouille, aneuploid, anguished, appliqued, aptitudes, attitudes, auctioned, audiences, audiotape, auditable, auditives, autopsied, baudekins, beatitude, bedaubing, belauding, buddleias, buildable, butadiene, cautioned, cuirassed, curarized, curtailed, curtained, cuspidate, dauberies, dauphines, deciduate, dentalium, devaluing, dialogued, dialogues, diapaused, diapauses, disabused, disabuses, dissuaded, dissuader, dissuades, disvalued, disvalues, dualities, dubitable, dulcineas, duplicate, duratives, educating, education, educative, elucidate, eluviated, equalised, equalized, euclidean, euclidian, eupatrids, exudation, exudative, exuviated, feudalism, feudalist, feudality, feudalize, feudaries, fireguard, fumigated, fusillade, gauderies, gaudiness, gratitude, guanidine, guidances, guideways, habitudes, housemaid, humanised, humanized, idealogue, inaudible, incubated, indurated, indurates, insulated, intubated, inundated, inundates, jaundiced, jaundices, jubilated, juicehead, lassitude, latitudes, laudative, laundries, lifeguard, ligatured, liquidate, lullabied, magnitude, manicured, mazaedium, misgauged, misvalued, mujahedin, muraenids, muscadine, mutilated, nursemaid, odalisque, outgained, outraised, outsailed, outwaited, platitude, preaudits, quadrigae, quadrille, qualified, quantized, quaysides, repudiate, residuals, residuary, rudbeckia, ruminated, ruralised, ruralized, sardiuses, simulated, squalider, supinated, sustained, tunicated, ultimated, ultrawide, unadmired, unadvised, unaligned, unaudited, unbraided, unchained, unclaimed, underlaid, underlain, underpaid, undrained, unhandier, unleading, unmarried, unpainted, unplaited, unreadier, unridable, unrivaled, unstained, untainted, untrained, unwearied, upbraided, upbraider, urbanised, urbanized, uredinial, urticated, vastitude, victualed, waveguide. | |
+5 letters: acidulated, acidulates, acquainted, acquiesced, actualized, adenovirus, adequacies, adjudicate, adjunctive, admixtures, adulteries, adulterine, airbrushed, aluminized, amplitudes, andalusite, andouilles, androecium, aneuploids, aneuploidy, annualized, antiquated, aquatinted, attributed, audacities, audiogenic, audiometer, audiometry, audiophile, audiotapes, auditioned, auditories, authorised, authorized, beatitudes, beautified, bifurcated, bivouacked, boundaries, breadfruit, brutalised, brutalized, budgerigar, butadienes, caducities, capsulized, carburised, carburized, cauterized, circulated, colatitude, crassitude, culminated, cultivated, daundering, debauching, defaulting, defrauding, degaussing, dehumanize, delusional, denaturing, dentaliums, denudating, denudation, depurating, deputation, derailleur, desugaring, dianthuses, discourage, disputable, dissuaders, dissuasive, draughtier, duennaship, dumbwaiter, duodecimal, duplicated, duplicates, duumvirate, educations, elucidated, elucidates, elucidator, elutriated, emulsoidal, enunciated, epicardium, eupatridae, euphausiid, euthanized, exactitude, exudations, feudalisms, feudalists, feudalized, feudalizes, figurehead, fireguards, fluoridate, fountained, fricandeau, fulminated, fundraiser, furanoside, fusillades, fustigated, gratitudes, guanidines, guarantied, habituated, heulandite, housemaids, humiliated, idealogues, illaudable, illuviated, inadequacy, inadequate, inaptitude, includable, inculcated, inculpated, incurvated, inductance, indurative, ineducable, infatuated, infuriated, inoculated, insinuated, judicature, juiceheads, languished, lassitudes, laundering, lifeguards, liquidated, liquidates, lubricated, luxuriated, magnitudes, manumitted, maundering, mendacious, micturated, minaudiere, miseducate, mujahideen, multiarmed, multigrade, multimedia, multipaned, muscadines, mutualized, nursemaids, obduracies, odalisques, outcaviled, outpainted, outreading, outrivaled, outwearied, pantsuited, pasquinade, pauperized, pediculate, persuading, platitudes, pluralized, praesidium, predacious, prudential, quadrennia, quadriceps, quadrilles, quandaries, quantified, quesadilla, radiopaque, reacquired, redarguing, repudiated, repudiates, repudiator, residually, rheumatoid, ritualized, rubricated, rudbeckias, rudimental, rusticated, seguidilla, semifeudal, sexualized, soundalike, squalidest, stimulated, stipulated, stridulate, subaudible, subdialect, subheading, sublimated, submarined, submediant, sudatories, summarised, summarized, tribulated, triturated, turbinated, unabridged, unacademic, unachieved, unadmitted, unassailed, unassigned, unassisted, unbaptized, uncalcined, unciliated, undeniable, undeniably, undismayed, unexamined, unfindable, unhandiest, unimpaired, uninflated, unladylike, unmarrieds, unmediated, unpedantic, unravished, unreadiest, unrealized, unrivalled, unsalaried, unsteadied, unsteadier, unsteadies, unsteadily, unstrained, untreading, upbraiders, vanquished, vastitudes, vaudeville, victualled, visualised, visualized, vulcanised, vulcanized, vulgarised, vulgarized, waveguides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 69 65 75 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .. . ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101001 01100101 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d i e u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0069 0065 0075 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3570757187 |
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