Definitions for riddance

riddance rid·dance

Spelling: [rid-ns]
IPA: /ˈrɪd ns/

Riddance is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 320 anagrams from letters in riddance (acddeinr).

Definitions for riddance

noun

  1. the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
  2. relief or deliverance from something.

Idioms

  1. good riddance, a welcome relief or deliverance from something:

Origin of riddance

First recorded in 1525-35; rid1 + -ance

Examples for riddance

But she did not dress the part very vigorously, and report soon accepted the husband as a bad lot and a riddance.

His be-whiskered friend did not put in an appearance and Kirtley congratulated himself on the riddance.

One step is a riddance of all the servants; I wonder how many you can do with.

riddance from it was only a dim hope, the remotest of possibilities.

These were the aggravations of the original idea of riddance, of checking crime by the absolute removal of the offender.

From the eyes of the world I have already disappeared; and nothing hinders the riddance of me now.

But it is for you to accept or reject what I propose as the riddance of this curse to your community.

It was a hard blow to native superstitions, but the riddance soon came to be acquiesced in.

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

He was well rid of it all, since in the riddance the doors of his prison-house were unlocked.

Word Value for riddance
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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