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Definition: Adios |
AdiosNoun1. A farewell remark; "they said their good-byes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adios" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Adios \A`dios"\, interj. [Spanish expression, from the Latin expression ad to deus god. Compare to Adieu.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940 at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana. Trained and driven by Frank Ervin and for a while owned by Harry Warner of Warner Brothers film studio, Adios was a multiple world champion during his racing career, his pacing record at the Shelbyville, Indiana fair stood for 43 years. Despite his racing success, it is his offspring that he is most famous for.
In 1948, Adios was bought by harness racing driver Delvin Miller to stand in stud at his Meadow Lands farm near Washington, Pennsylvania. The horse proved to be a tremendous stud, considered by many to be the greatest in harness racing history. He sired eight Little Brown Jug winners, more than any other horse, and his sons, Adios Butler and Bret Hanover both became winners of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers.
Before he died in 1965, Adios had sired 589 offspring. His name is synonymous with horse racing and can be found on consumer products and harness horse equipment. At his passing, the horse was buried at Meadow Lands farm under his favorite apple tree near the paddock that had been his home for seventeen years.
A race was named for him, held each year on the second Saturday in August at The Meadows racetrack in Meadow Lands, Pennsylvania. Since the first Adios Pace in 1967, it has evolved into one of the important events in the harness racing season.
In 1977, a book was published by Marie Hill titled Adios: the big daddy of harness racing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adios."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ADIOS | English | Automatic Digital Input-Output System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AdiosSynonyms: adieu (n), arrivederci (n), au revoir (n), auf wiedersehen (n), bye (n), bye-bye (n), cheerio (n), good day (n), goodby (n), good-by (n), goodbye (n), good-bye (n), sayonara (n), so long (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Adios |
| Non-English Usage: "Adios" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (farewell, goodbye, parting). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Adios. Finito, benito (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
Lyrics | Adios no es una palabra para nosotros (Don't Say Goodbye; performing artist: Paulina Rubio) No me digas adios (Don't Say Goodbye; performing artist: Paulina Rubio) Adios, amigo, bye bye (Me, Myself and I; performing artist: Vitamin C) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Amor... Adios (1971) Adios cuñado! (1966) Operation Adios (2003) Adios! (1997) Adios David (1979) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Adios" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Adios" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 75% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (plural) | 25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "adios"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | ciao, addio (adieux). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adiosay.(various references) | |
Russian | прощай (adieu, adieus, adieux, vale). (various references) | |
Spanish | Adiós (adieu, by-by, bye, bye bye, cheerio, farewell, good bye, goodbye). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "adios": radios. (additional references) | |
Words containing "adios": radiosensitive, radiosensitivities, radiosensitivity, radiosonde, radiosondes, radiostrontium, radiostrontiums. (additional references) | |
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"Adios" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abios, Adabo, Adao, adas, adaws, Addawo, addio, addios, addisons, Adees, adels, adeot, adeus, Adibo, adiou, adious, adioz, adiposy, adis, adish, Adisok, adist, adits, adiu, Adjigon, adoc, adoic, Adoko, ados, adous, aedis, afiso, Aidoc, Aidoo, aiso, Aldius, Andiol, Asioz, audious, Audoins, avioc, avios, Aviso, axioes, Axios, azio, badius, daio, daoist, dayos, dios, edio, edious, etios, Naidios, odio, odios, Pdois, tadjiks, xdos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adios" (pronounced Ä'dēō"s) |
| 4 | -d ē ō" s | grandiose. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-o-s" | |
-1 letter: ados, aids, dais, sadi, said, soda. | |
-2 letters: ado, ads, aid, ais, dis, dos, ids, ods, sad, sod. | |
-3 letters: ad, ai, as, do, id, is, od, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-o-s" | |
+1 letter: adonis, aroids, audios, avoids, danios, radios. | |
+2 letters: adagios, adipose, adipous, adjoins, advisor, aikidos, amidols, codeias, dacoits, daikons, daimios, daimons, daimyos, dakoits, dialogs, diatoms, dioxans, disavow, domains, gadoids, ganoids, hairdos, haloids, inroads, iodates, isolead, ladinos, mastoid, mikados, odalisk, ordains, oxidase, roadies, sadiron, sarcoid, sialoid, sparoid, toadies, toadish, woodsia, zodiacs. | |
+3 letters: acidoses, acidosis, adenoids, adenosis, adhesion, adiposes, adiposis, adjoints, admonish, adonises, advisors, advisory, agonised, airdrops, ambroids, amidones, amyloids, andirons, androids, aneroids, anodizes, apodosis, assoiled, asteroid, astonied, atomised, auditors, avodires, avoiders, azotised, bedsonia, broadish, cabildos, camisado, carotids, coadmits, codeinas, cordials, corridas, daimones, darioles, diabolos, diagnose, diamonds, diapason, diaspora, diaspore, diastole, diatrons, diazoles, digamous, dilators, dinosaur, diocesan, dioptase, dioramas, dioxanes, diplomas, dipnoans, disallow, disavows, disfavor, disloyal, disposal, dystocia, dystonia, dystopia, edacious, factoids, foresaid, goliards, halidoms, haploids, hidalgos, holidays, hyaloids, idocrase, inboards, intrados, isolated, isoleads, isopodan, kilorads, labroids, loadings, mastoids, mattoids, melodias, miradors, monacids, monadism, nomadism, nonacids, obsidian, odalisks, oppidans, ordinals, oxidants, oxidases, oxidasic, oxidates, oxyacids, parodies, parodist, parotids, picadors, pintados, placoids, plasmoid, poniards, postpaid, roadside, sadirons, saintdom, salmonid, sarcoids, sardonic, sarodist, satinpod, scaphoid, sedation, sepaloid, sesamoid, shipload, sodalist, sodalite, sodality, sodamide, solidago, solidary, sparoids, spondaic, sporadic, sudation, sympodia, tabloids, toadfish, toadyish, toadyism, woodsias. | |
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