Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express farewell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adieu; good-by.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish-speaking people.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection
goodbye
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a farewell remark
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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In Bolivia the word adios is sparsely or never used.
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In Bolivia the word adios is sparsely or never used.
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Two weeks with a Sony PRS-700: Audio, and 'adios' - And now I come to the end of my two-week experiment with the Sony Reader PRS-700.
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Two weeks with a Sony PRS-700: Audio, and 'adios' - And now I come to the end of my two-week experiment with the Sony Reader PRS-700.
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Two weeks with a Sony PRS-700: Audio, and 'adios' - And now I come to the end of my two-week experiment with the Sony Reader PRS-700.
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Australians are in a frenzy because their PM said 'adios'....
We're so thin skinned... GayandRight 2009
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When that phase of things ended, we waved them "adios" and thought we'd give ourselves a vacation for a few weeks, but we were introduced by a neighbor to a different jefe.
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I mean, if they took the side of a wild, unruly anarchist bomb-thrower like Obama (the candidate supported by mere voters, which makes him automatically suspect in the eyes of the MSM), they could kiss any possible future inside the system 'adios'.
Hillary Spokesperson Hedges: Obama Has Not Passed Commander-In-Chief Test "At This Point" 2009
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As someone whom he failed to represent for many years, I say "adios" with a great sense of relief.
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Finally, he realizes I am not interested when I bid him an avocado firm "adios," and he heads back from where he started.
Maine to Mexico: A funeral procession, a pick-up, a pink pinata, and pastel de chocolate 2008
frangarnes commented on the word adios
The correct form is adiós
October 22, 2007