Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to express farewell.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Until we meet again; good-by for the present.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Good-by until we meet again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • interjection Goodbye till we meet again.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a farewell remark

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : au, till the + revoir, seeing again.]

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From French with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.

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