(interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.
(n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
(n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
(a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(2) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
(3) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(4) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
(5) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
(6) But Moyes would not be drawn on the chances of this being their European farewell.
(7) More than half a century after the US military draft put Elvis Presley's career on hold, his modern-day South Korean counterpart bade farewell to tearful fans this week as he prepared for two years' national service.
(8) If this is verified, we may say farewell to routine smallpox vaccination.
(9) But this was a thoroughly joyous and well-crafted farewell.
(10) When France put an end to capital punishment in 1981, it also bid a not-so-fond farewell to the instrument of death that had taken the lives of thousands.
(11) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
(12) Frank Lampard had moved to nip all talk of farewells in the bud.
(13) Thompson was also a generous host of farewell dinners for departing BBC staff.
(14) Gassman's swan song, or serata d'addio, the farewell performance which Italian actors of distinction were always expected to give, began in 1996.
(15) Leaving London this morning after a formal farewell from the Queen at Buckingham Palace, Mr Bush and his entourage made their way on Air Force One to the prime minister's County Durham constituency.
(16) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
(17) The analysis demonstrates differences in the two therapists' practice from the very moment patient and therapist greet one another till they say farewell.
(18) Big international firms should shoulder (their) due responsibilities to bid farewell to malpractice, setting a good example and serving as a wake-up call for domestic pharmaceutical companies.
(19) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
(20) A great woman gone far too young.” Bellingham’s pre-recorded farewell appearance on Loose Women is due to be screened on Wednesday.
Godspeed
Definition:
(n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you."
Example Sentences:
(1) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
(2) And if you’re feeling nostalgic for the weirdness and boobery of 2012 (godspeed Rafalca ), you can enjoy the fact that Scott Walker’s veneration of Ronald Reagan verges on a cultic unease far worse than any evangelical paranoia about Romney’s Mormonism.
(3) There have been high-profile support slots for post-rockers Sigur Rós and Godspeed You!
(4) Godspeed to the heroic Iraqi forces, Kurdish peshmerga, and Ninewa volunteers.
(5) So good luck, and Godspeed.” In contrast to the large number of commutations, Obama has only pardoned 64 prisoners, fewer than all his predecessors since James Garfield’s six-month tenure as president in 1881.
(6) Without revisiting stale debates about the 'big society' and citizen empowerment, and localism versus centralism, I wished godspeed to Thame.