riddance

1. 1.

   the act of removing or getting rid of something

   Synonymselimination

   Broaderremoval

   Narrowersimplification
2. 2.

   the act of forcing out someone or something

   “the ejection of troublemakers by the police”

   “the child's expulsion from school”

   Synonymsejectionexclusionexpulsion

   Broaderbanishment

   Narrowerdefenestrationdeportationostracismbarringouster

Other forms of riddance

plural

riddances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about riddance

What does riddance mean?

riddance means "the act of removing or getting rid of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in riddance?

riddance has 2 syllables: rid-dance. The stress falls on "rid". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪdəns/.

What is another word for riddance?

Close synonyms include elimination, ejection, exclusion, expulsion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is riddance a common word?

riddance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.