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A1 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /baɪ/ UK /baɪ/ See IPA manual

Homophones

buy /baɪ/ by /baɪ/

Minimal pairs

Sounds like vie /v/ vs /b/

Freq #501

Meanings

1

intj
Used to say goodbye.

Bye, see you tomorrow!
2

noun
A way of saying goodbye.

They waved and said their goodbyes at the door.
3

noun
In a competition, a free pass to the next round without playing.

Our team had a bye in the first round of the tournament.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

3 noun · in a competition, a free... pass

Word family

Derived forms badbyebye-byebye-letterbye-workmancheery-byekthxbyerockabye

Etymology

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).

bī Old English

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Topics

General Vocabulary

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