Noun: adios
| Singular | adios |
| Plural | adioses |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1982, Gordon DeMarco, The Canvas Prison, Germinal Press, →ISBN, page 123:]
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Bill McCauley also said his adioses as he’s departing this summer to rejuvenate the DCS for Doctrine at TRADOC. [1989 October, Dave Gerard, “’68”, in Assembly, volume XLVIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: the Association of Graduates, USMA, pages 121–122:]
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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. [2005, Food Arts:]
Nouns inflected like adios
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish adiós; see there for more. Doublet of adieu. See: Spanish Nouns '
adiós'.