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sayonara

/ˌsaɪəˈnɑːɹə/

sayonara interjection: goodbye, adios, adieu.

Interjection

  1. (especially, humorous, informal, often) Goodbye, adios, adieu.
    • Sonic: Sayonara! Shadow the Hedgehog!2001 June 23, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Adventure 2, Sega, published 2001

Noun

sayonara (plural sayonaras)

  1. An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone.
    • After a simply marvelous, entertaining two and a half hour meal, they reclaimed their shoes and ceremoniously bid their sayonaras to the Japanese girls.1999, Hell to Pay, →ISBN, page 19

sayonara meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Indonesian and Persian

sayonara in Tamil

பிரியா விடை

sayonara in Arabic

goodbye, in reference to Japan
سَايُونَارَا sāyūnārā

sayonara in Indonesian

goodbye, in reference to Japan
sayonara

sayonara in Persian

goodbye, in reference to Japan
سایونارا sâyonârâ
More languagesFewer languages
sayonara in Thai
ซาโยนาระ saa-yoo-naa-rá

Synonyms of sayonara

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All synonyms of sayonara

Forms of sayonara

Interjection
alternative formsayōnara
Noun
pluralsayonaras

Origin of sayonara

Borrowed from Japanese さようなら (sayōnara, “farewell”, literally “if that's the way it is”) or its shorter, less traditional form さよなら (sayonara).

Words that rhyme with sayonara

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Questions about sayonara

What does sayonara mean?
Sayonara means goodbye, adios, adieu.
What is sayonara in Tamil?
Sayonara in Tamil is பிரியா விடை. See Sayonara meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sayonara?
Sayonara can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce sayonara?
Sayonara is pronounced /ˌsaɪəˈnɑːɹə/.

Words near sayonara in the dictionary

  1. saymaster
  2. saymasters
  3. saymen
  4. Sayoko
  5. sayon
  6. sayonara
  7. sayonaras
  8. Sayonika
  9. sayons
  10. sayori
  11. Sayosuki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sayonara (page history and authors); sayonara (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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