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farewell

1

[ fair-wel ]

interjection

  1. goodbye; may you fare well:

    Farewell, and may we meet again in happier times.



noun

  1. an expression of good wishes at parting:

    They made their farewells and left.

  2. a fond farewell.

  3. a party given to a person who is about to embark on a long journey, retire, leave an organization, etc.

adjective

  1. a farewell performance.

Farewell

2

[ fair-wel ]

noun

  1. Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.

farewell

/ ˌfɛəˈwɛl /

sentence substitute

  1. goodbye; adieu
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a parting salutation
  2. an act of departure; leave-taking
  3. modifier expressing leave-taking

    a farewell speech

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to honour (a person) at his departure, retirement, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of farewell1

First recorded in 1325–75, farewell is from the Middle English word farwel. See fare, well 1
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Example Sentences

The result was not exactly an offensive masterpiece putting the rest of the NFC on notice that the Saints are poised for a Super Bowl run in what could be Brees’s farewell postseason.

In our farewell, my boss said he was sending a gift to me to recognize both.

The cartoonist bid farewell knowing his strip was at its aesthetic pinnacle.

Three days before flying with his mother and manager to his new life in Washington, the Wizards’ 19-year-old first-round draft pick is bidding farewell to the floor that made him famous by draining one three-pointer after another.

All of the Core Four were still producing for the Yankees into the 2010s, years after Williams had played his last game in pinstripes, which kept him from participating in the farewell narrative with the rest of the dynasty’s cornerstones.

There was something cathartic about deleting this 2,500-word monster of a farewell, and resolving to live.

Get ready to bid farewell to the spitfire Bobby Bottleservice and big booty player Ref Jeff.

“If you see their car, you know some poor soul is about to die,” Noor says, at his farewell party.

A Chinese restaurateur ran to the window as I wolfed down roast duck for my farewell dinner, as shots were heard across the way.

Will voters shower Breaking Bad with farewell trophies, or is the enthusiasm for True Detective impossible to beat?

I often recall the farewell lunch we had together at the Restaurant de Paris, in the Escolta.

Uncle David nodded, and waved his hand, as on entering the door he gave them a farewell smile over his shoulder.

They were just about to celebrate tabagie, or a solemn feast, over his last farewell.

The farewell and the mourning are finished by the slaughter of dogs, that the dying man may have forerunners in the other world.

In the evening I received General d'Amade who had come over to pay his farewell visit.

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