riddance

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (countable, uncountable) An act of ridding, clearance, or removal; elimination.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Deliverance, release, setting free; a relief involving getting rid of something.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The earth thrown up by a burrowing animal.

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C2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈɹɪdəns/
Etymologie (Englisch)

Apparently an alteration of earlier Middle English riddeings, ryddyngs, reddyngs (“clearings, clearances”), plural of riddyng, riddynge, rudyng (“clearing away, removal”), partially continuing Old English hryding (“a clearing, cleared land”), by surface analysis, rid + -ance.

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