English Explanatory Dictionary

bye

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
  2. An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
  3. A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
  4. An unspecified way or place.
  5. A pass.
adj
  1. Out of the way; remote.
  2. Secondary; supplementary.
intj
  1. Goodbye.
  2. An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.
noun
  1. Eye dialect spelling of boy.
prep
  1. Obsolete spelling of by.
noun
  1. Obsolete spelling of bee.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/baɪ/ en-us-bye.ogg en-au-bye.ogg /bɑːj/

Word forms

bye byes more bye most bye

Etymology

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).

Synonyms

get out of here applesauce bender bollocks bosh bugger off bullcrap bullcrud bullfuck bullshit chinny reckon codswallop come off it come on c'mon fiddle fiddledeedee fiddle-faddle fiddlefart fiddlestick fiddlesticks flummery fuck off gertcha get away get out of it get out of town get outta here get to fuck gimme a break give over go on harumph Hookey Walker horsefeathers horse hockey horseshit malarkey no no way nonsense pshaw pshh pshht pssh pssht pull the other leg pull the other one it's got bells on it's got brass bells on rubbish stroll on tell it to Sweeney tell it to the judge tell it to the marines tell me another one Walker yeah right you're having me on

Related words

beddy-bye sleepy-bye

Derived words

leg bye bye-letter bye-workman badbye bye-bye cheery-bye hi-bye friend kthxbye rockabye tatty bye

Translations

Albanian: paçim Gheg Albanian: tung Arabic: إِلَى اللِّقَاء Arabic: مَعَ السَّلَامَة Arabic: سَلَام Arabic: باي Armenian: բարով Assamese: যাওঁ Assamese: আহোঁ Azerbaijani: xudafiz Bambara: a k'an be Bengali: খোদা হাফেজ Bengali: আল্লাহ হাফেজ Bulgarian: ча́о Catalan: adeu Chinese Cantonese: 拜拜 Chinese Cantonese: 再見 /再见 Chinese: 再會 /再会 Chinese: 拜拜 Chinese: 欲行囉 /欲行啰 Chinese: 欲去囉 /欲去啰 Chinese Mandarin: 再見 /再见 Chinese Mandarin: 再會 /再会 Chinese Mandarin: 回見 /回见 Chinese Mandarin: 拜拜 Chinese Mandarin: 88 Chukchi: виин Chukchi: аʼтав Czech: ahoj Czech: čau Dutch: dag Dutch: doei Dutch: doeg Dutch: tot ziens Dutch: tot weerziens Dutch: tot kijk Dutch: tot gauw Dutch: laters Dutch: hoie Dutch: houdoe Dutch: zwaai Dutch: toedels Esperanto: ĝis Estonian: tsau Faroese: bei Faroese: adjø Finnish: hei hei Finnish: heippa Finnish: moikka Finnish: moi moi Finnish: hei French: salut Galician: abur Galician: aburiño Galician: adeus Georgian: ნახვამდის German: baba German: tschüss German: tschö German: tschau Greek: αντίο Greek: γεια Hebrew: ביי Hindi: अलविदा Hindi: विदा White Hmong: mus zoo Hungarian: viszlát Hungarian: szia Hungarian: pá Icelandic: bæ Icelandic: bless bless Icelandic: bæjó Ido: til Ido: chao Igbo: ngwānụ Indonesian: sampai Japanese: またね Japanese: さようなら Japanese: では Japanese: じゃ Japanese: じゃ、また Japanese: バイバイ Khmer: លាហើយ Korean: 안녕 Korean: 잘 있어 Korean: 잘 가 Korean: 빠이빠이 Lao: ສະບາຍດີ Lao: ໄປກ່ອນ Latin: valē Latvian: atā Latvian: sveiks Latvian: uz redzēšanos Lithuanian: iki
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