Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to express farewell.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Afrikaans : tot, until + siens, seeing.]

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Examples

  • Surely the only possible answers are that either we negotiate a totally different relationship of a much more disengaged membership of the EU Club or we say that the final alternative is to leave after saying a very polite ‘goodbye, au revoir, totsiens, auf wiedersehn, hasta la vista, TTFN’?

    Paper Tigers On The Loose 2007

  • Surely the only possible answers are that either we negotiate a totally different relationship of a much more disengaged membership of the EU Club or we say that the final alternative is to leave after saying a very polite ‘goodbye, au revoir, totsiens, auf wiedersehn, hasta la vista, TTFN’?

    Archive 2007-08-12 2007

  • All right then, totsiens, Sean, and he turned and walked quickly out of the bar.

    When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

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