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   sayonara

   /ˌsʌɪəˈnɑːrə/

   exclamation

   • 1. goodbye: informal US "the beautiful Diana was twenty-one when she said sayonara"

   Word Origin Japanese, short for sayō naraba, literally ‘if it be thus’.

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   The meaning of SAYONARA is goodbye —sometimes used interjectionally. How to use sayonara in a sentence.

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   Sayonara is a casual way to say goodbye, similar to phrases like "so long" or "see ya!" You might say sayonara to your traveling grandmother, or say sayonara to a terrible job at the end of a long summer.

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   Sayonara definition: farewell; goodbye.. See examples of SAYONARA used in a sentence.

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   Define sayonara. sayonara synonyms, sayonara pronunciation, sayonara translation, English dictionary definition of sayonara. interj. Used to express farewell. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

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   noun. 1. a Japanese farewell. exclamation. 2. goodbye. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency. sayonara in American English. (ˌsɑjɔˈnɑʀɑ) Japan. interjection, noun. goodbye; farewell. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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   Jun 12, 2024 · sayonara (plural sayonaras) An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone.

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   Sayonara definition: Used to express farewell.

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   sayonara, int., n., & adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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    farewell; good-bye. Middle Chinese, equivalent. to Chinese yàng appearance) + nara if it be ( ni essive particle + ara subjunctive stem of existential verb, verbal) Japanese sayō-nara, equivalent. to sayō thus ( sa that + yō, earlier yaũ. 1870–75.

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    OED's earliest evidence for sayonara is from 1883, in the writing of J. J. Smith. It is also recorded as an interjection from the 1860s. sayonara is formed within English, by conversion.