Noun: adieu
| Singular | adieu |
| Plural | adieux; adieus |
Sample Sentences
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We bid our final adieus to our family, then boarded the ship, bound for America.
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As Noyes bade me adieu and rode off northward in his car I began to walk slowly toward the house. [1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:]
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Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due. [1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:]
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At the of his so remote, so near, 1884 summer Van, before leaving Ardis, was to make a visit of adieu to Ada's larvarium. [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:]
Nouns inflected like adieu
bandeau,
Black Forest gateau,
Black Forest gâteau,
portemanteau,
adieu,
aboideau,
black forest gâteau,
black forest gateau,
gateau,
milieu,
rondeau,
gâteau,
tableau,
beau,
Etymology
From Middle English adieu also adew, adewe, adue, from Old French adieu (“to God”), a shortening of a Dieu vous comant (“I commend you to God”), from Medieval Latin ad Deum (“to God”). Doublet of adios.
Verbs referencing "adieu"
Galician Nouns
adeus.