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adios

/ˌæ.diˈɒs/ UK
/ˌɑ.diˈoʊs/ US
/ˌɑ.diˈɔs/ US

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish adiós; see there for more. Doublet of adieu.

interjection adiós

in Spanish contexts goodbye
Similar: addio, adieu, aloha, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, ayubowan, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, cheers, ciao

noun adioses · adiós

A goodbye. In fifteen minutes I had finished eating, swilled a cup of industrial strength scorch, got Solly’s keys and all the dope on how to handle his big new DeSoto, received a sack of ribs from Cleo to eat along the way and paid my adioses to Trumbo and Len Fugate who saw Helen and me to the door.

verb adioses · adiosing · adiosed · adiós

To leave; to literally or figuratively say “adios” to. About an hour later I adiosed the office.
To get rid of. By the time they got there, somebody’d adiosed the corpse.

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adios. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/adios

Chicago

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@misc{adios_2026,
  title = {adios},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adios},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}