bye

English Online Dictionary. What means bye‎? What does bye mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: bi, buy, by

Etymology 1

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).

Noun

bye (plural byes)

1. The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
2. (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
3. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bye.
4. (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
5. (card games) A pass.

Derived terms

• (cricket): leg bye

Translations

Adjective

bye (comparative more bye, superlative most bye)

1. Out of the way; remote.
2. Secondary; supplementary.

Etymology 2

Shortened form of goodbye.

Interjection

bye

1. (colloquial) Goodbye.
3. (African-American Vernacular, slang) An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.

   Synonyms: get out of here; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: baai
• → Greenlandic: baj
• → Faroese: bei
• → Icelandic: bæ

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

bye (plural byes)

1. Eye dialect spelling of boy.

Etymology 4

Alternative forms.

Preposition

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of by.

Noun

bye

1. Obsolete spelling of bee.

See also

• beddy-bye, sleepy-bye

Anagrams

• Bey, Eby, bey

Afrikaans

Noun

bye

1. plural of by

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English bye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye !

1. bye

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English bye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baj/

Interjection

bye

1. bye, goodbye

Synonyms

• alvida
• orevwar

Middle English

Noun

bye

1. A ring or torque; a bracelet.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²byː.ə/

Noun

bye f or m (definite singular bya or byen, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bya, bøya, bøye

Etymology

From Dutch bui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²byː.ə/

Noun

bye f (definite singular bya, indefinite plural byer, definite plural byene)

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Derived terms

References

• “bye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Alternative forms

• buye

Etymology

From Middle English bey, from Old English *bōia, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biː/
• Homophones: ba, buee

Noun

bye (plural bys)

1. boy

   Synonym: gorson

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29