English
Interjection
Sense: a departure or closing salutation
Synonyms
- adieu (formal)
- adios (formal)
- aloha (Hawaii)
- arrivederci
- auf Wiedersehen
- au revoir
- badbye
- BCNU (Internet slang)
- bye (informal)
- bye-bye (informal)
- catch you later (informal)
- ciao (informal)
- cheerio (UK, informal)
- cheers [⇒ thesaurus] (mainly UK, informal)
- cheery-bye (UK, informal)
- chur (NZ, informal)
- farewell (formal)
- good day
- Godspeed
- hasta la vista (slang)
- hasta la vista, baby (slang)
- have a nice day (US, informal)
- hooroo (Australia, colloquial)
- I have to love you and leave you (UK, informal)
- keep it real (slang)
- late [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- later (slang)
- laters (slang)
- peace out (slang)
- sayonara (informal)
- see ya (informal)
- see you (informal)
- see you after (UK, Scottish)
- see you in the funny papers
- see you later
- see you later alligator (informal)
- shalom
- smell ya later (humorous, informal)
- smell you later (humorous, informal)
- so long (informal)
- take care
- ta-ta (UK, informal)
- tatty bye (UK, informal)
- tinkety-tonk (dated, colloquial)
- toodle-oo (informal)
- toodle pip (UK, informal, dated)
- toodles (slang)
- TTFN (informal)
- ttyl (informal)
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Further reading
- “293. departure” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “farewell” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.