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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Riddance \Rid"dance\, n.
     1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up
        or out.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of
              thy field.                            --Lev. xxiii.
                                                    22.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
        ``Riddance from all adversity.'' --Hooker.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Riddance \Rid"dance\, n.
     1. The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up
        or out.
  
              Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of
              thy field.                            --Lev. xxiii.
                                                    22.
  
     2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
        ``Riddance from all adversity.'' --Hooker.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  riddance
       n 1: the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: elimination]
       2: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection
          of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion
          from school" [syn: ejection, exclusion, expulsion]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  riddance
     n.
     The act of being rid of something; deliverance

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  riddance
     n.
     The act of being rid of something; deliverance

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  riddance
     n.
     The act of being rid of something; deliverance

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  riddance
     n.
     The act of being rid of something; deliverance

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  riddance
     Engelska n.
     befrielse

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Riddance /ɹˈɪdəns/
  التخلص

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  riddance /ɹˈɪdəns/
  zbavování se

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  riddance /ɹˈɪdəns/
  Lossein 
           Note: einer Person/Sache
        "Good riddance!"  - Und tschüss!
        "Good riddance to them!"  - Die sind wir gottseidank los!
        "She was an awful person. Good riddance to her, I say!"  - Sie war eine schreckliche Person. Ich weine ihr keine Träne nach.
        "Winter is finally over, and I say good riddance!"  - Der Winter ist endlich vorbei und ich weine ihm keine Träne nach.
        "Good riddance to bad rubbish!"  - Dem braucht man nicht nachzuweinen!, Dem braucht man keine Träne nachzuweinen!
           Note: of a person/thing

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  riddance /ɹˈɪdəns/
  izbavljenje od, odstranjenje, oslobođenje

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  riddance /ɹˈɪdəns/
  1. szabadulás vmitôl
  2. megszabadulás vmitôl

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɹɪdəns/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "riddance":
     abandonment, abjuration, break, breakout, cession, clearance,
     deliverance, delivery, deportation, detachment, discard,
     discarding, disjunction, dispensation, disposal, disposition,
     dumping, ejection, elimination, emergence, eradication, escape,
     escapism, evasion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extrication,
     flight, forgoing, forswearing, freeing, getaway, getting rid of,
     giving up, issuance, issue, jailbreak, jettison, junking, leak,
     leakage, letting go, liberation, liquidation, ostracism, outlawing,
     outlawry, outlet, prisonbreak, purge, recantation, release,
     relegation, relinquishment, removal, renunciation, rescue,
     resignation, retraction, sacrifice, scrapping, setting-free,
     severance, surrender, suspension, swearing off, vent, withdrawal,
     yielding
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 得免,除去,驱逐;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 摆脱,除去,驱逐

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