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Sayonara

Definition: Sayonara

Sayonara

Noun

1. A farewell remark; "they said their good-byes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Sayonara

DomainDefinitions

Slang

Interjection. Source: Sayo(o)nara in Japanese means Goodbye. Definition: Somebody is about to suffer injury. Context: When talking to an opponent . Social Source: Mitsunagi Coasties. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Sayonara

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sayonara is a 1957 film which tells the story of an American soldier who falls in love with a Japanese girl during the Korean War. It stars Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons and Ricardo Montalban.

The movie was adapted by Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener. It was directed by Joshua Logan.

It won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Red Buttons), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Miyoshi Umeki), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Sound. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Sayonara is Japanese for 'goodbye'. The hiragana spelling is sayounara.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sayonara."

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Synonyms: Sayonara

Synonyms: adieu (n), adios (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), so long (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sayonara

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Departure

Leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Sayonara

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Sayonara PC (1972)

Shojo-yo sayonara (1933)

Sayonara ozu sensei (2001)

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Commercial Usage: Sayonara

DomainTitle

Books

  • Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America: From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place (Modern American litera (reference)

  • Darwin Sayonara (reference)

  • Edificio Sayonara (reference)

  • Sayonara (reference)

  • Sayonara My Friend: Love Annie (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Photo Album: Sayonara

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Sayonara.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sayonara

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sayonara

54

sayonara movie

4

actress sayonara

4

jackes sayonara

3

lyrics sayonara

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sayonara

Language Translations for "sayonara"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

帰国セール (sale of one's belongings before returning to one's country, sayonara sale). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

き"くセール (sale of one's belongings before returning to one's country, sayonara sale). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ayonarasay

   

Thai

  

ลาก่อน (คำทับศัพท์ าษาญี่ปุ่น). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sayonara

Derivations

Words beginning with "sayonara": sayonaras. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sayonara" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ayamara, Kaynarca, saionara, Samosata, Saponaria, Satyendra, Saxonica, sayanara, sayonnara, sayonora, syonara. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sayonara

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-n-o-r-s-y"

-2 letters: rayons.

-3 letters: anoas, arson, asana, rayas, rayon, roans, saran, sonar, yarns.

-4 letters: anas, anoa, ansa, naos, nary, nays, nosy, oars, osar, raya, rays, roan, rosy, ryas, soar, sora, sorn, soya, yarn.

-5 letters: aas, ana, any, ars, ays, nay, nor, nos, oar, ons, ora, ors, ran, ras, ray, rya, say, son, soy, syn, yar, yon.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-n-o-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: sayonaras.

 

+4 letters: alcyonarians.

 

+5 letters: paralyzations.

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Alternative Orthography: Sayonara


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 79 6F 6E 61 72 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .-    -.--.    ---    -.    .-    .-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01111001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#121 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0079 006F 006E 0061 0072 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5367918180678467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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