take one's leave

take one's leave

English

Verb

take one's leave (third-person singular simple present takes one's leave, present participle taking one's leave, simple past took one's leave, past participle taken one's leave)

1. (idiomatic) To depart.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 18:18:

     And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren.

2. say goodbye

Translations

depart — see depart

say goodbye

Chinese: Mandarin: 告別／告别 (zh) (gàobié), 告辭／告辞 (zh) (gàocí) Czech: loučit se impf Esperanto: adiaŭi Finnish: hyvästellä (fi) French: dire adieu (fr), faire ses adieux (fr), prendre congé de (fr) German: Abschied nehmen, sich verabschieden (de) Japanese: 告別する (ja) (こくべつする, kokubetsu suru) Norwegian: Bokmål: anbefale seg (no) Polish: żegnać się (pl) impf, pożegnać się (pl) pf Portuguese: despedir-se Russian: проща́ться (ru) impf (proščátʹsja), прости́ться (ru) pf (prostítʹsja), попроща́ться (ru) pf (poproščátʹsja) Serbo-Croatian: oprostiti se Slovene: se posloviti Vietnamese: cáo từ (vi)

See also

• take leave