RIDDANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riddance mean? 

• RIDDANCE (noun)
  The noun RIDDANCE has 2 senses:

1. the act of removing or getting rid of something

2. the act of forcing out someone or something

  Familiarity information: RIDDANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIDDANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of removing or getting rid of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

elimination; riddance

Hypernyms ("riddance" is a kind of...):

remotion; removal (the act of removing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riddance"):

simplification (elimination of superfluous details)

Derivation:

rid (relieve from)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of forcing out someone or something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ejection; exclusion; expulsion; riddance

Context example:

the child's expulsion from school

Hypernyms ("riddance" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "riddance"):

defenestration (the act of throwing someone or something out of a window)

deportation (the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien)

ostracism (the act of excluding someone from society by general consent)

barring; blackball (the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto)

ouster; ousting (the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out)

 Context examples 

“I ain't a person to live with them as has had money left. Things go too contrary with me. I had better be a riddance.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dan'l, I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)