bid adieu
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To say goodbye (to), to bid farewell.
Example Sentences
- "Ladies, gentlemen, I bid you adieu."
- "Now Harold felt himself at length alone, / And bade to Christian tongues a long adieu; […]"
- "“Do Veniam,” said his Superior; and the old man seized, with a trembling hand, a beverage to which he had been long unaccustomed, drained the cup with protracted delight, as if dwelling on the flavour and perfume, and set it down with a melancholy smile and shake of the head, as if bidding adieu in future to such delicious potations."
Inflected Forms
bids adieu (present, singular)
bidding adieu (participle, present)
bade adieu (past)
bidden adieu (participle, past)