# goodbye

Pronunciation: US say "guhd-BY" /ɡədˈbaɪ/; AUS

## Interjection

1. Said when you part from someone, whether you or they are leaving; farewell.
   - Simple: A word you say when you leave someone, or when they leave you.
   - _Goodbye for now. I'll write when I reach the coast._
   - _The children shouted goodbye as the bus rolled away from the curb._

## Noun

2. An act of saying farewell to someone.
   - Simple: The act of saying farewell when someone is leaving.
   - _The long goodbye on the platform nearly delayed the train._
   - _He hated goodbyes and often slipped out without saying one._

## Verb

3. To wish someone farewell as you part from them. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To say farewell to someone as you or they leave.
   - _Parents who goodbye their children at the school gate often linger to wave until the doors close._
   - _She spent twenty minutes goodbying the whole family at the front door._

## Origin

This developed from the phrase "God be with ye" (or "God be with you"), which was gradually contracted through forms like "God b'w'y" and "God buy you" into "goodbye." The shift from "God" to "good" came about through confusion with greetings like "good morning" and "good night," and the word is now analysed as good + bye.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/goodbye (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).