All 4 Uses of
adieu
in
As You Like It
- I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur Melancholy.†
Scene 3.2 *adieu = goodbye
- With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my Rosalind: so, adieu!†
Scene 4.1
- Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let time try: adieu!†
Scene 4.1
- If sight and shape be true, Why then, my love, adieu!†
Scene 5.4
Definition:
a farewell remark (an alternative to goodbye)
Adieu is typically more formal than bye. It comes from the French, à Dieu which literally means "to God" — as in I entrust you to God's care.