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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adieu
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ They bade both the merchant and his paramour adieu.
▪ Within an hour he had kissed Maeve adieu and they were on the road south to Westminster.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adieu

Adieu \A*dieu"\, interj. & adv. [OE. also adew, adewe, adue, F. ? dieu, fr. L. ad to + deus God.] Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.

Adieu

Adieu \A*dieu"\, n.; pl. Adieus. A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adieu

late 14c., adewe, from French adieu, from phrase a dieu (vous) commant "I commend (you) to God," from a "to" (see ad) + dieu "God," from Latin deum, accusative of deus "god," from PIE *deiwos (see Zeus). Originally said to the party left; farewell was to the party setting forth.

Wiktionary
adieu

interj. Said to wish a final farewell; goodbye. n. A farewell, a goodbye; especially a fond farewell, or a lasting or permanent farewell.

WordNet
adieu
  1. n. a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]

  2. [also: adieux (pl)]

Wikipedia
Adieu (Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan song)

"Adieu" (: "Adjø", : "Goodbye") was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, performed in Norwegian by Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan.

The song is a ballad, with the duo taking the roles of lovers ending a relationship. They pledge to remain on good terms, even though they are no longer together. Skorgan and Teigen were married at the time they performed together, but divorced shortly thereafter.

The song's lyrics was an experiment in which they tried to avoid Norwegian "hard words" like IKKE and BAKKE, to make the song more listenable to European ears. Hence the French title "Adieu".

The song was performed third on the night, following Luxembourg's Svetlana with " Cours après le temps" and preceding the United Kingdom's Bardo with " One Step Further". At the close of voting, it had received 40 points, placing 12th in a field of 18.

It was succeeded by Teigen performing solo with " Do Re Mi" as the Norwegian representative at the 1983 contest.

Adieu

Adieu (French for "farewell") may refer to:

Adieu (Stockhausen)

Adieu für Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer is a composition for wind quintet by Karlheinz Stockhausen composed in 1966. It is Number 21 in the composer's catalog of works, and the second of Stockhausen's three wind quintets.

Adieu (Cœur de pirate song)

"Adieu" is a song by Canadian singer Cœur de pirate, from her second studio album Blonde (2011). It was released as a single in Canada on March 19, 2011.

Usage examples of "adieu".

I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains and uneasinesses, and disquietudes of this weary life.

Caderousse, waving his hand in token of adieu to Danglars, and bending his steps towards the Allees de Meillan, moving his head to and fro, and muttering as he went, after the manner of one whose mind was overcharged with one absorbing idea.

I must say adieu to you, as I am compelled to go to Naples, and shall not return hither before Saturday evening or Sunday morning.

I have, for I have come to warn you that I bid adieu to your house, and -- and to you.

He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.

I have now nothing further to do, my lord, than to wish you joy of your liberation, and to bid you adieu for ever.

Adieu dan, mijn beste Elly, Adieu dan: dank je nog duizend maal voor alles wat je voor me gedaan hebt.

Parker even more when she bade me a simple adieu, and did not seek to impress upon me the virtues of this or that plow, the rakes and tines and blades of which were pendant from the ceiling in a Damoclean display.

As I was bidding him adieu, he gave me an order on his house at Naples for a barrel of muscatel wine, and he presented me with a splendid box containing twelve razors with silver handles, manufactured in the Tour-du-Grec.

I listened patiently to all the complaints of the mother who maintained that, in giving up the character of castrato, Therese had bidden adieu to fortune, because she might have earned a thousand sequins a year in Rome.

Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.

Dot hastily returned to the Kangaroo, and all the Native Companions came daintily, and made graceful adieus to them both.

Valentine and Morrel were exchanging their adieux in the presence of Noirtier when a ring was heard at the door-bell.

Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, and Paoli attending to conduct him from the castle, he took an affectionate adieu of his mother and Laurette, and proceeded on his journey.

I told her, before bidding her adieu, that, her virginity being no longer necessary for my magic operations, I advised her to get married as soon as possible, if I did not return within three months.