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单词 farewell
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farewellv.

Brit. /ˌfɛːˈwɛl/, U.S. /ˌfɛrˈwɛl/
Forms: Also 1600s farwell.
Etymology: < farewell int.
a. transitive. To take leave of, bid or say good-bye to; spec. Australian and New Zealand: to honour a departing or retiring person or persons at a ceremonial occasion.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > bid farewell to
beteachc1314
bid farewella1400
teacha1400
to beteach one good dayc1400
to bid (also say) adieu (to)c1425
farewella1586
lenvoy1596
adieu1602
speed1726
to tell a person goodbye1853
sayonara1883
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) i. sig. H6 She brake from their armes..And fare-welling the flocke did homeward wend.
1606 W. Arthur & H. Charteris Rollock's Lect. 1st & 2nd Epist. Paul to Thessalonians (1 Thess.) xxvi. 325 After tryell if thou findst it [his doctrine] sound..keep it; if not, fairewell it.
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 28 It put some doubts to flight that you had farwell'd Barningham.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xliii. 356 Pantagruel..farewell'd..the President.
1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. 122 She farewelled me with her dying eyes.
1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 235 The North Terrace and the railway station had farewelled us with more delightful fervour than even if we had been an Australian Eleven driving round in drags.
1931 Auckland Star 22 Mar. Opportunity was taken to farewell the Rev. E. Drake and Mrs. Drake.
b. intransitive. To say good-bye.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use formal courtesy in act or expression [verb (intransitive)] > bid farewell
to take leavelOE
to latch one's ease, one's leave1377
to take congee1377
fangc1400
adieua1500
to get one's leave?a1513
to take adieu (also farewell)1539
to shake hands1546
congeea1616
to give congeea1645
farewell1930
sayonara1949
1930 Tribune (Melbourne) 15 May 2/3 A popular priest. Fr. Hyland farewelled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

farewellint.n.adj.adv.

Brit. /ˌfɛːˈwɛl/, U.S. /ˌfɛrˈwɛl/
Forms: Middle English–1500s farwel(l(e, Middle English–1700s farewel, (Middle English fayrwell, 1500s fairewell, fearewele), Middle English– farewell.
Etymology: The phrase fare well (see fare v.1 9) treated as one word.
A. int.
1. An expression of good wishes at the parting of friends, originally addressed to the one setting forth, but in later use a mere formula of civility at parting; Goodbye! Adieu! Now poetic or rhetorical, and chiefly implying regretful feeling.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell
farewell1377
farewell itc1385
adieua1393
vale?1555
da-da1573
addio1577
goodbye1578
bye1618
adios1635
bye-bye1639
day-day1697
ta-ta1823
ave1850
sayonara1863
hooray1898
cheero1903
toodle-oo1907
hurroo1913
cheerio1914
pip-pip1919
tooraloo1922
cheery-bye1930
cheers1937
tara1958
ciao1961
toodles1965
tatty-bye1971
toodle-pip1977
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 41 ‘Ȝee, farewel phippe!’ quod fauntelte.
c1440 York Myst. xli. 458 Fayrwell! Godson, thowe grant vs thy blyssng.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xvi. vii Fare well, she sayde, for I must parte you fro.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 35 I am your accessary, and so farewell . View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 And now farewel . View more context for this quotation
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 111 Farewell!—we meet no more in life!—farewell!
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xlvi. 9 Farewell company true, my lovely comrades.
2.
a. figurative. An expression of regret at leaving anything, or a mere exclamation = Goodbye to, no more of. Also farewell to, and farewell it.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous expressions [interjection] > expressions of farewell
farewell1377
farewell itc1385
adieua1393
vale?1555
da-da1573
addio1577
goodbye1578
bye1618
adios1635
bye-bye1639
day-day1697
ta-ta1823
ave1850
sayonara1863
hooray1898
cheero1903
toodle-oo1907
hurroo1913
cheerio1914
pip-pip1919
tooraloo1922
cheery-bye1930
cheers1937
tara1958
ciao1961
toodles1965
tatty-bye1971
toodle-pip1977
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 39 Whan..that the floures ginnen for to springe Farwel my book and my devocioun!
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1900 Fare wel phisyk. go ber the man to cherche.
?c1475 Sqr. lowe Degre 941 Farewell golde, pure and fyne; Farewell velvet, and satyne.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. ii. 42 All the vertue thereof is gone, and farewell it.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xxiv. 145 And if she yeilded, farewel Bavaria.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 38 Farewel, ye secret Woods, and shady Groves.
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. v. 193 Farewel to real friendship, farewel to convivial delight!
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 247 So farewel envy of the peasants' nest.
b. farewell fieldfare: see fieldfare n. Phrases.
c. In the name of a plant (see quot. 1878-86).
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1878–86 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Farewell Summer, Saponaria officinalis L... From its flowering in the months of August and September.
B. n. (and adj.)
1. (a) The int. used substantively as a name for itself, and hence for any equivalent, as in to say farewell to. With this has now coalesced the originally distinct use in to bid farewell, where farewell represents historically the infinitive, not as elsewhere the imperative, of the verbal phrase. (b) An utterance of the word ‘farewell’; any expression or act equivalent to this; a parting salutation, formal leave-taking, adieu.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > parting salutation
farewell1393
adieua1425
bonally1488
goodbye1575
vale1583
adios1592
valediction1619
ave1634
vale-dictum1638
sayonara1872
bye-bye1875
hasta la vista1888
valedictory1892
bye1935
arrivederci1938
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 268 But farewell she was ago Unto Pallas.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xviii. 21 Bad them feare well.
1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Moral Philos. (1888) IV. 229 For a farewell..he will yerke out behinde and put him in daunger of his life.
1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 791 But we litle regarding their curtesie, gaue them the gentle farewell, and so departed.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. I2 She..begg'd some gentle voyce to tune a farewell To life and griefes.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 12 So their Visitor bid them farewel . View more context for this quotation
1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 1. ⁋14 I take my farewel of this subject.
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 490 He was going to bid all things here an everlasting farewel.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 367 Fondly look'd their last, And took a long farewell.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. xiii. 119 She had wept her last farewell on her mother's bosom.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxxi. 190 I cannot think the thing farewell . View more context for this quotation
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 116 ‘I came to bid you farewell’, he said softly.
1884 Illustr. London News 1 Nov. 410/2 The ‘farewells’..of actors and singers are not always to be depended on.
2. A payment on quitting a tenancy. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > payment on leaving tenancy
out-penny1289
fare-fee1523
farewell1523
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xii. f. 25v The tenant..shall make a fyne with the lorde for his dep[ar]tyng..and it is called a farefee or a farewell.
3. transferred. An after-taste, twang. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > aftertaste
aftertaste1592
farewell1634
after treat1674
repetition?c1710
way-gang1754
by-taste1799
whang1905
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 183 The Iacke..leaues a clammy fare-well in the mouth, but addes a double benefit to the stomacke.
1648 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 245 Temporal advantages of wealth [etc.]..have a very ill farewel with them at the last.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) This Wine has a sad Farewell with it.
4.
a. attributive passing into an adjective: Pertaining to a farewell, accompanying or signifying a farewell. (In this use the stress is variable: most commonly ˈfarewell.)
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > relating to parting from one another
parting1562
farewella1711
a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) I. 182 He num'rous Farewell-Blessings on them pour'd.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 445. ¶2 Writers, who have taken their Leave of the Publick, in farewel Papers.
1713 T. Tickell On Prospect of Peace 41 The hardy Vet'ran..Leans on his Spear to take his farewell View.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Coup de partance, a farewel-gun.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 108 A few final or farewell farewells.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. x. 115 I accompanied them with my dogs as a farewell escort for some miles.
1932 E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xix. 249 He is..giving a final series of farewell performances.
1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds viii. 120 I wanted to make sure that he was coming down on Saturday to Ramillies' farewell party.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 267 To announce a farewell appearance then be on the scene again the following week is to ooze all the ebbing charm..of the desperate old actor.
1971 R. Busby Deadlock xv. 224 You could say it was his farewell performance.
b. applied to the point where one ‘bids farewell to’ or parts from a person or thing.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > point where one leaves a person or thing
farewell1669
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [adjective] > applied to point where one bids farewell to
farewell1669
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. A ij The Lizard being the farewel Cape to most Ships that sail out of the British Seas.
1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 199 Farewell Rock. The familiar term in the South Welsh coal-field for the Millstone Grit, because on striking it the miner bids farewell to all workable seams of coal.
C. adv.
(cf. adieu int. 1) to go farewell: to go away, be dismissed. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go or move away specifically of things
forgoc950
worthOE
atgoc1175
alithec1275
withdraw1297
lenda1350
withgoa1400
to go farewellc1400
voidc1400
startc1405
overdrawa1450
recedec1450
sinkc1450
remove1481
regress1552
to-gang1596
elongate1646
abscede1650
discede1650
to take a walk1871
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §23. 32 Lat A & F [two stars] go farwel til agayns the dawenyng a gret while.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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