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• n  an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
• n  the act of departing politely
  he disliked long farewells

• In Manhattan last week, 66-year-old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, sang her farewell.

• word of farewell
• leave
• leave-taking
• parting

News & Articles

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• A moving farewell to a retiring principal
  After 36 years, a principal retires but not before a surprise farewell from the school community.
  June 21, 2013 - Washington Post
• LETTER: A fond farewell to Superintendent Pete Miller
  EDITOR: With a fond farewell, I wish Pete Miller, superintendent of Somerset Hills School District, the very best in the next stage of life. He has served the district with a calm intelligence and ste
  June 21, 2013 - The Bernardsville News
• Social Farewell Allows You to Post Online After Death
  A Minnesota man launched a new social media site this week that allows people to leave meaningful thoughts after death. Dave Stewart launched Social Farewell, a site that lets you plan what you'd really like to say to friends and family on social media, should you die unexpectedly. "We're allowing people to have that comfort of, 'I know what my last post is going to be, it's there for my family ...
  June 21, 2013 - Local 12 Cincinnati

Quotes

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• Kylie Minogue in United Press International
  It is with absolute gratitude and joy that I say farewell to 2007 and look forward to what the New Year will bring,said Minogue.
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn in FOXNews
  He gave Russian culture worldwide fame. Farewell, beloved friend,Solzhenitsyn said.
• David Gilmour in FOXNews
  There have been all sorts of farewell moments in people's lives and careers which they have then rescinded, but I think I can fairly categorically say that there won't be a tour or an album again that I take part in,said Gilmour. "It isn't...