Definitions for bye

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bye bye

Spelling: [bahy]

IPA: /baɪ/

Bye is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in bye (bey).

Definitions for bye

noun

1. Sports. in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round:
2. Golf. the holes of a stipulated course still unplayed after the match is finished.
3. Cricket. a run made on a ball not struck by the batsman.
4. something subsidiary, secondary, or out of the way.

Idioms

1. by the bye, by the way; incidentally: Also, by the by.

adjective

1. by1 .

interjection

1. goodbye.
2. goodbye:

Origin of bye

1710-20; variant spelling of by¹ in its noun sense “side way”

Examples for bye

To quote my spirit animal, Merritt Wever, “I gotta go, bye.”

The year before that, West Side Story and bye bye Birdie were huge sellers.

The manufacture of lead-pencils, by the bye, is a very interesting subject.

It's the only comfort I have, and I'll get all the rest I want by and bye.

By the bye, it has just occurred to me that the Fourth of July is properly a show.

bye and bye the eyes closed, and still clinging to the post, she slept.

bye knew the place well and the significance of the sound he heard.

He was alone, wrapped at six in the morning, and the rest of us had wrapped earlier and were like, “Well, bye, goodnight!”

I never knew how long he would last before he said, “Okay, bye.”

The bye bye is being sung, incidentally, by mothers to their babies condemned to death by King Herod.