au revoir

Borrowed from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.ɹə.ˈvwɑː/ or IPA^(key): /ɔːɹ.ˈvwɑː/, or pronounced as in French, IPA^(key): /o.ʁə.ˈvwaʁ/ or IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ˈvwaʁ/.
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.ɹə.ˈvwɑɹ/

au revoir

1. Goodbye till we meet again.
   • 2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org

     After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.

• 2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio

  Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars

• addio, adeus, adieu, adios, aloha, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, cheers, ciao, farewell, good-by, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, shalom, so long

au +‎ revoir, literally "until the reseeing".

• IPA^(key): /o ʁə.vwaʁ/, (colloquial) /ɔʁ.vwaʁ/

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au revoir

1. goodbye

• (informal) salut
• (informal) à plus tard
• (informal) à plus
• (informal) bye
• (informal) bye-bye
• (informal) ciao
• (informal) à la revoyure

• ouvrerai