From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbyebye1 /baɪ/●くろまる●くろまる●くろまるS1 interjectioninformalGOODBYE goodbyeBye, Dave.bye for now (=used to say that you will see or speak to someone again soon)Related topics: Sportbyebye2 noun [countable]DSa situation in a sportscompetition in which a player or a teamdoes not have an opponent to play against and continues to the next part of the competitionExamples from the Corpusbye• Banbridge, Dungannon, Bangor and North have byes to the secondround.• They had talked about enjoying the byeweek.• Since the advent of the bye week in 1990, the Rams are 3-5 the week afterward.• Maybe it was the bye week hex.• The Raiders actually have had two weeks to prepare for Denver, with both teams coming off their bye week.bye-bye- /baɪ/ prefixanother spelling of by-Originbye1(1700-1800)goodbyebye2(1800-1900)by