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You can make 6 words from bye according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of bye

bye ybe bey eby yeb eyb

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Definitions and meaning of bye

bye

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.

   Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

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.
2. (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 form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by byge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)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Derived terms

References

• “bye” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Alternative forms

• buye

Etymology

From Middle English bye, boye, 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