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Definition of Farewell

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. Related Definitions: Act, Adieu, An, And, Applied, As, At, Bid, Both, Bow, But, By, Compliment, Custom, Depart, Departing, Departure, Discourse, Expression, Fare, Farewell, Final, Go, Good-By, Happiness, His, Is, It, Last, Leave-Taking, Look, Now, Of, Often, Only, Or, Originally, Parting, Person, Pronoun, Reference, Remain, Separated, Separation, Something, Sometimes, Sweet, That, The, Those, To, Used, Valedictory, Welfare, Well, Who, Wish, Ye, Year, You

Farewell Quotations 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 Farewell, fair cruelty. William Shakespeare Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R. Tolkien 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 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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