All 4 Uses
adieu
in
As You Like It
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(adieu) 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.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)