Usually means: Farewell expression signaling end, departure.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word bye:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. bye: Merriam-Webster
  2. bye, bye: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bye, bye, bye-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bye, bye-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bye: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bye, bye: Wordnik
  7. bye: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bye, 'bye, bye: Wiktionary
  9. bye: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bye (by): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bye: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bye, bye, bye-: Dictionary.com
  13. bye (1), bye (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bye: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bye (cricket), Bye (sports), Bye (tennis), Bye: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bye: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bye: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bye: Rhymezone
  19. Bye: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bye: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bye, bye-: MyWord.info
  22. bye: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bye: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bye, bye, bye-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bye: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. bye: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bye: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BYE: CCI Computer
  2. bye: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BYE: Acronym Finder
  2. BYE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bye: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bye: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bye: Backgammon
  2. Bye: Chess Dictionary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. bye: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Bye: Sports Definitions

(Note: See byes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
noun:  (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
noun:  (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
noun:  (card games) A pass.
adjective:  Out of the way; remote.
adjective:  Secondary; supplementary.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Eye dialect spelling of boy. [A young male human.]
noun:  Obsolete spelling of bee. [A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.]

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