goodbye
Used when you leave a person or place, or end a call or talk.
Used as a polite formula when you leave someone or end a conversation.
The act or time when people say goodbye.
An act, word, or moment of saying farewell when someone leaves.
- Base: goodbye
- Plural: goodbyes
goodbye for now
1Temporary farewell phrase
Used to say goodbye when you expect to see or talk to the person again soon.
- Thanks for calling, goodbye for now.
- Goodbye for now, and we’ll speak again next week.
- She ended the email with "Goodbye for now" and her name.
goodbye kiss
4Kiss at parting
A kiss that people give each other when one of them is leaving.
- He gave his wife a quick goodbye kiss before heading to work.
- She leaned down to give the baby a goodbye kiss.
- At the station, they shared a long goodbye kiss.
goodbye party
3Party for someone leaving
A party to say goodbye to someone who is leaving a place, job, or group.
- We’re having a goodbye party for Maria before she moves to Canada.
- The office organized a goodbye party on his last day at work.
- They threw a big goodbye party when she left for university.
kiss something goodbye
6Lose something permanently
To lose something completely and know you will not get it back.
- Miss another deadline and you can kiss that promotion goodbye.
- When the rain started, we kissed our picnic goodbye.
- He kissed his savings goodbye to pay for the repairs.
say goodbye to something
5Accept losing something
To accept that you will no longer have something, or that something will not happen.
- If this project fails, we can say goodbye to our bonus this year.
- After the injury, he had to say goodbye to his dream of becoming a professional player.
- With prices so high, many families are saying goodbye to holidays abroad.
wave goodbye
2Make a hand farewell
To move your hand from side to side to say goodbye.
- The children stood at the window and waved goodbye as the car drove away.
- She waved goodbye to her parents at the airport.
- We stayed on the platform, waving goodbye until the train disappeared.