ad·i·os

[ad-ee-ohs, ah-dee-; Spanish ah-thyaws]
interjection
good-bye; farewell.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; < Spanish: literally, to God; cf. adieu

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adios (ˌædɪˈɒs, Spanish aˈðjos) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
sentence substitute
goodbye; farewell
 
[literally: to God]

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Adios is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

adios
1837, Amer.Eng., from Sp. adios, from phrase a dios vos acomiendo "I commend you to God" (see adieu).
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ADIOS
Asian Dust Input to the Oceanic System
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Without an increasingly large base of awareness and predisposition towards a client's brand-well, adios.
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