Definition of Farewell

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Farewell

Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.

A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.

Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.

Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

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Farewell Quotations

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Robert Byrne

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
James Weldon Johnson

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
Donald Cargill

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher

Farewell Translations

farewell in Danish is afsked, farvel
farewell in Dutch is vaarwel, adieu
farewell in French is adieu
farewell in German is Lebewohl, Lebe wohl
farewell in Italian is separazione, addio
farewell in Norwegian is farvell, avskjed
farewell in Portuguese is adeus

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