au revoir

Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑː/ or IPA^(key): /ɔːɹ ˈvwɑː/, or pronounced as in French, IPA^(key): /o.ʁə ˈvwaʁ/ or IPA^(key): /ɔʁ ˈvwaʁ/.
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/ or IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/.

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

au revoir

1. Goodbye; till we meet again.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goodbye

   • 2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio

     Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars

   • 2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org [1]

     After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.

   • 2015, David George Surdam, “Economics”, in Trey Strecker, Steven P. Gietschier, Mitchell Nathanson, John A. Fortunato, David George Surdam, Understanding Baseball: A Textbook, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 83:

     To feed the family four hot dogs, two beers, two sodas, and a tray of nachos, you can kiss another Ulysses Grant au revoir (hey, you might as well learn a few foreign phrases while studying sports).

Literally, “until the reseeing”. Ultimately from Latin ad + Latin re- + Latin videō. Cognate with Italian arrivederci. Compare parallel and more distant cognate Bulgarian довиждане (doviždane), Russian до свида́ния (do svidánija).

• IPA^(key): /o ʁə.vwaʁ/, (colloquial) /ɔʁ.vwaʁ/

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au revoir

1. goodbye

   Synonyms: (informal) salut; (informal) à plus tard; (informal) à plus; (informal) bye; (informal) bye-bye; (informal) ciao; (informal) à la revoyure

• Louisiana Creole: aréwa
• Haitian Creole: orevwa

• ouvrerai

Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir (“au revoir; goodbye”)

au revoir (comparative lebih au revoir, superlative paling au revoir)

1. au revoir; goodbye

• “au revoir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.