bye

Meanings

Adjective

• Out of the way; remote.
• Secondary; supplementary.

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.
• An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
• A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
• An unspecified way or place.
• A pass.
• A male person.

Interjection

• Goodbye.

Origin

• Variant form of by, from Old English bī (being near).
• Shortened form of goodbye.
• Alternative forms.