adios

• adiós

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.diˈɒs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.diˈoʊs/, /ˌɑ.diˈɔs/

adios

1. (in Spanish contexts) goodbye

   Synonyms: addio, adieu, aloha, arrivederci, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, cheers, ciao, farewell, good-by, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, shalom, ayubowan, so long, do svidanya

adios (plural adioses)

1. A goodbye.
   • 1982, Gordon DeMarco, The Canvas Prison, Germinal Press, →ISBN, page 123:

     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.

   • 1989 October, Dave Gerard, “’68”, in Assembly, volume XLVIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: the Association of Graduates, USMA, pages 121–122:

     Bill McCauley also said his adioses as he’s departing this summer to rejuvenate the DCS for Doctrine at TRADOC.

   • 2005, Food Arts:

     At the end of the evening, some of the students accompanied Lezama back to the religious residence where he was staying and said their adioses.

adios (third-person singular simple present adioses, present participle adiosing, simple past and past participle adiosed)

1. To leave; to literally or figuratively say “adios” to.
   • 2003, Vivian Livingston, as told to Sherrie Krantz, Vivian Lives, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 93:

     About an hour later I adiosed the office.

   • 2019, Jessica Shubert, My Name is Runaway, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

     “Oh, yes, I’m so happy that my latest codelincuente has adiosed me,” I scoff.

   • 2020, Melanie Greene, Roll Play, →ISBN:

     Three cups later, he and Juana stacked together their collated notes and he adiosed the kids and caregivers.

   • 2021, James Patterson, David Ellis, The Red Book, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

     “ONE THING you need to be clear on,” Patti says after we’ve adiosed the scene, doubling back now to drive me to my car.

2. To get rid of.
   • 1993, Scott Turow, Pleading Guilty, Viking, →ISBN, page 244:

     By the time they got there, somebody’d adiosed the corpse.

   • 2008, Suzanne Brockmann, Into the Fire, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 219:

     She also adiosed the eye contact.

• Aidos, Odias, aidos

From Spanish adiós.

adiós

1. goodbye

• IPA^(key): /ˈadi̯ɔs/

adios

1. future of adiar

Borrowed from Spanish adiós (“goodbye”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈdi.os/, [aˈdi.ɔs]
• Rhymes: -ɔs
• Hyphenation: a‧di‧os

adios

1. (colloquial) adios, goodbye

   Synonyms: selamat jalan, selamat tinggal

• “adios” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Spanish adios. Doublet of adieu and adio.

• IPA^(key): /aˈdi.jɔs/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ijɔs
• Syllabification: a‧di‧os

adios

1. (colloquial) adios, goodbye

• adios in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /aˈdjos/ [aˈð̞jos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: a‧dios

adios

1. Anglicization of adiós.