bye
1
[ bahy ]
/ baɪ /
noun Also by.
Sports.
in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
Golf.
the holes of a stipulated course still unplayed after the match is finished.
Cricket.
a run made on a ball not struck by the batsman.
something subsidiary, secondary, or out of the way.
adjective
by1.
Idioms for bye
by the bye,
by the way; incidentally: By the bye, how do you spell your name?
Also by the by.
Origin of bye
1
1710–20; variant spelling of
by1 in its noun sense “side way”
Words nearby bye
Definition for bye (2 of 4)
Definition for bye (3 of 4)
by
2
or bye
[ bahy ]
/ baɪ /
interjection
goodbye: By now, come again sometime!
Origin of by
2
by shortening
Definition for bye (4 of 4)
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British Dictionary definitions for bye (1 of 4)
bye
1
/ (baɪ) /
noun
sport
the situation in which a player or team in an eliminatory contest wins a preliminary round by virtue of having no opponent
golf
one or more holes of a stipulated course that are left unplayed after the match has been decided
cricket
a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman
See also leg bye
something incidental or secondary
by the bye
incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
Word Origin for bye
C16: a variant of
by
British Dictionary definitions for bye (2 of 4)
bye
2
bye-bye
sentence substitute
British informal
goodbye
British Dictionary definitions for bye (3 of 4)
Word Origin for by
Old English
bī; related to Gothic
bi, Old High German
bī, Sanskrit
abhi to, towards
British Dictionary definitions for bye (4 of 4)
by
2
the internet domain name for
Belarus