riddance

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

verlossing

Synoniemen

deliverance

elimination

rescue

expulsion

extrication

ejection

exclusion

conge

congee

deforestation

disengagement

disposal

dumping

excision

exemption

firing

quietus

reclaim

release

relief

remission

removal

rustication

sacking

separation

suspension

dislodgment

dismission

separationism

absolution

releasement

abstraction

acquittal

acquittance

avoidance

censure

clearance

Vertalingen

liberación

expulsão

exclusion

débarras

élimination

exclusió

expulsió

تخلُّص

απαλλαγή

Befreiung

ξεμπέρδεμα

اِسْتِبْعاد

alliberament

suppression

alliberació

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈɹɪdəns/

Etymologie (Engels)

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.