Synonyms of the word

leave-taking

• n. The process of saying goodbye.

departure

• n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
• n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• n. (euphemistic) A death.
• n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
• n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
• n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

farewell

• n. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting, especially a permanent departure; the parting compliment; a…
• n. An act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
• adj. Parting, valedictory, final.
• interj. Goodbye.
• v. To bid farewell or say goodbye.

going

• v. present participle of go.
• n. A departure.
• n. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
• n. progress.
• n. (figuratively) Conditions for advancing in any way.
• n. (obsolete) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
• n. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
• adj. Likely to continue; viable.
• adj. That attends habitually or regularly.
• adj. Current, prevailing.
• adj. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.

leave

• v. (heading, transitive) To have a consequence or remnant.
• v. (heading) To depart; to separate from.
• v. (heading) To transfer something.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
• n. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
• n. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether…
• n. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
• n. (dated or law) Permission.
• n. (dated) Farewell, departure.
• v. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

leaving

• v. present participle of leave.

parting

• n. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
• n. A farewell, the act of departing politely.
• n. (Britain) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US).
• n. (founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
• n. (chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold…
• n. (geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
• n. (nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
• n. (mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as…
• v. present participle of part.