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- [bahy]
- /baɪ/
- /baɪ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bahy]
- /baɪ/
Definitions of bye word
- convention bye Bye and bye-bye are informal ways of saying goodbye. 3
- noun bye the situation in which a player or team in an eliminatory contest wins a preliminary round by virtue of having no opponent 3
- noun bye one or more holes of a stipulated course that are left unplayed after the match has been decided 3
- noun bye a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman 3
- noun bye something incidental or secondary 3
- sentence substitute bye goodbye 3
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Origin of bye
First appearance:
before 1710 One of the 50% oldest English words
1710-20; variant spelling of by1 in its noun sense “side way”
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Bye
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
bye popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bye usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bye
noun bye
- adieu — Adieu means the same as goodbye.
- adios — goodbye; farewell
- arrivederci — goodbye
- bye-bye — goodbye
- cheerio — People sometimes say 'Cheerio' as a way of saying goodbye.
Antonyms for bye
noun bye
- hello — hello, world
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