cheers

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tʃɪəz/
• (General American) enPR: chĭrz, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪɹz/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z

Verb

cheers

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cheer

Verb

cheers (third-person singular simple present cheerses, present participle cheersing, simple past and past participle cheersed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To say "cheers" as a toast (to someone).
   • 2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 125:

     So I just tilted my beer, cheersing him.

   • 2018, Kavya Mahadik, Unheard Love: Experience the illusion of love:

     We cheersed and started drinking.

Noun

cheers

1. plural of cheer

Interjection

cheers

1. A common toast used when drinking in company.
2. (chiefly Commonwealth, informal) goodbye, especially as a sign-off in an email or after writing a comment.
3. (Commonwealth, informal) thank you

Synonyms

• (toast): bottoms up, skoal, chin chin, down the hatch, here’s mud in your eye
• (informal: goodbye): bye, catch you later, cheerio (UK), laters (slang), see you, see you later, see you after (Scottish), see you later alligator, so long, ta-ta (British), peace (slang)
• (informal: thank you): ta (UK, CA, AUS, NZL), thanks; see also Thesaurus:thank you

Derived terms

• cheers my dears

 

Translations

toast when drinking

• Afrikaans: gesondheid (af), tjorts
• Albanian: gëzuar (sq)
• Amharic: መልካም (mälkam)
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: فى صحتك m (fe ṣeḥḥétak), فى صحتك f (fe seḥḥétek)

  Moroccan Arabic: بالصحة و العافية (beṣ-ṣaḥa we-l-ʕāfya)

• Armenian: կենացդ (kenacʻd)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܚܘܼܒܘܼܟ݂ (b-ḥubboḵ) (to a man), ܒܚܘܼܒܵܟ݂ܝ (b-ḥubbāḵ) (to a woman), ܒܚܘܼܒܵܘܟ݂ܘܿܢ (b-ḥubboḵon) (to a group)
• Azerbaijani: şərəfə
• Basque: topa
• Belarusian: будзьма (budzʹma)
• Breton: yec’hed mat (br)
• Bulgarian: наздраве (bg) (nazdrave)
• Catalan: salut (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乾杯／干杯 (gon¹ bui¹), 飲勝／饮胜 (jam² sing³), 飲杯／饮杯 (jam² bui¹), 勝嘅／胜嘅 (sing³ ge³)

  Hakka: 乾杯／干杯 (kôn-pî)

  Hokkien: 乾杯／干杯 (zh-min-nan) (kan-poe), 啉予焦 (lim hō͘ ta), 予焦啦 (hō͘ ta--lah), 乾啦／干啦 (kan--lah)

  Mandarin: 乾杯／干杯 (zh) (gānbēi) (dry cup)

• Cornish: yeghes da
• Czech: na zdraví (cs)
• Danish: skål (da)
• Dutch: proost (nl), gezondheid (nl), santé (nl), prut (nl), cheers (nl), lechajim (nl), daar ga je
• Esperanto: je via sano, sanon (eo)
• Estonian: terviseks, proosit
• Faroese: skál
• Fijian: bula (fj)
• Finnish: kippis (fi), hölökyn kölökyn
• French: à votre santé (fr) (formal), santé (fr), tchin-tchin (fr)
• Gagauz: saalık
• Galician: saúde (gl)
• Georgian: გაუმარჯოს (gaumarǯos), გაგიმარჯოს (gagimarǯos)
• German: prost (de), zum Wohl (de)
• Greek: εις υγείαν (eis ygeían), στην υγειά… (stin ygeiá…), γεια μας (geia mas)
• Hebrew: לחיים (he) (le'khaim)
• Hindi: चीयर्स (cīyars)
• Hungarian: egészségedre (hu), szervusz (hu), csincsin
• Icelandic: skál (is)
• Indonesian: bersulang, pro (id), tos (id)
• Irish: sláinte
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: cin cin, alla salute, salute (it), prosit (it)
• Japanese: 乾杯 (ja) (かんぱい, kanpai) (dry cup)
• Kazakh: денсаулығыңыз үшін (densaulyğyñyz üşın), саулығыңыз үшін (saulyğyñyz üşın)
• Khmer: សន្តិយុត្ត (sɑnte' yutta'), ជល់មួយ (cŭəlmuəy)
• Korean: 건배(乾杯) (geonbae) (dry cup), 위하여 (wihayeo), 축배 (chukbae) The Korean expression “위하여” means “for”. You can add any objective depending on the circumstances, or simply omit it.
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

• Ladin: viva, vives
• Lao: ຕຳຈອກ (tam chǭk)
• Latin: propino
• Latvian: priekā
• Lithuanian: į sveikatą
• Luxembourgish: prost
• Macedonian: на здравје (na zdravje)
• Maltese: saħħa (mt), evviva
• Marathi: चियर्स (ciyarsa)
• Mongolian: таны эрүүл мэндийн тѳлѳѳ (tany erüül mendiin tölöö)
• Navajo: ídlą́ (to one person), ohdlą́ (to two people), daʼohdlą́ (to three or more)
• Norman: santé!
• Norwegian: skål (no)
• Occitan: Santat, a la vòstra
• Okinawan: カリーサビラ (karīsabira), カリー (karī)
• Persian: به سلامتی (be salâmati)
• Polish: na zdrowie (pl)
• Portuguese: saúde (pt), tim tim
• Romani: baxt, sastipen
• Romanian: (hai) noroc!, sănătate! (ro)
• Romansch: viva
• Russian: за ва́ше здоро́вье (za váše zdoróvʹje) (formal), за твоё здоро́вье (za tvojó zdoróvʹje) (informal), бу́дем здоро́вы (búdem zdoróvy) or just ва́ше здоро́вье (ru) (váše zdoróvʹje). Russians don’t have a general toast-cheer, but "за ваше здоровье" is most used.; пей до дна́ (pej do dná) (drink to the bottom), за здоро́вье (za zdoróvʹje) (generic but less common)
• Scottish Gaelic: slàinte
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уздравље, живели, чин чин

  Roman: uzdravlje, živeli, čin čin

• Sicilian: â saluti!, pròsita!, San Brasi!
• Slovak: na zdravie
• Slovene: na zdravje
• Spanish: salud (es)
• Swahili: maisha marefu, afya (sw), vifijo
• Swedish: skål (sv)
• Tagalog: tagay
• Thai: ไชโย (th) (chai-yoo), ชนแก้ว
• Turkish: şerefe (tr)
• Udmurt: сябась (śabaś)
• Ukrainian: бу́дьмо (uk) (búdʹmo)
• Urdu: جام (ur) (jām), شاد (śād), سَلام (salām)
• Vietnamese: cam pôi, sự cạn ly, nâng cốc chúc mừng
• Walloon: a vosse santé, santé (wa), a ti (familiar)
• Welsh: iechyd da
• West Frisian: tsjoch (fy)
• Yiddish: לחיים (lekhayem)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

informal: goodbye

• Afrikaans: totsiens (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祝好 (zhù hǎo)

• Danish: hej hej, vi ses
• Dutch: tot ziens (nl), tot later, ciao (nl), (Netherlands) hoi (nl), (Netherlands) doei (nl), doeg (nl), ik zie je, later (nl), (Flemish) salu/salut (nl), slukes
• Estonian: tsau (et)
• Finnish: terve (fi), moikka (fi)
• French: à plus (fr), salut (fr) m, ciao (fr)
• German: tschüss (de)
• Greek: γεια (el) (geia)
• Italian: ciao, ci vediamo
• Kazakh: сау бол (sau bol), кездескенше (kezdeskenşe)
• Macedonian: чао (čao)
• Persian: خداحافظ (fa) (xodâhâfez)
• Polish: cześć (pl)
• Portuguese: tchau (pt)
• Romanian: pa (ro)
• Russian: пока́ (ru) (poká)
• Sicilian: ni videmu
• Spanish: nos vemos
• Swedish: hej (sv), mors (sv), morsning (sv), tja (sv)
• Turkish: güle güle (tr)
• Ukrainian: па-па́ (pa-pá), бува́й (uk) (buváj)

informal: thank you

• Afrikaans: dankie (af)
• American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmUp
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 謝謝／谢谢 (zh) (xièxie)

• Danish: tak (da)
• Dutch: dank je, dankjewel (nl)/dank je wel, bedankt (nl), jo (nl), joe (nl), thanks (nl), merci (nl) (Flemish), mercikes (Flemish)
• Estonian: tänud
• Finnish: kiitti (fi)
• French: merci (fr)
• German: danke (de)
• Macedonian: фала (fala)
• Malay: terima kasih (ms)
• Polish: dzięki (pl)
• Portuguese: valeu
• Romanian: mersi (ro)
• Russian: спаси́бо (ru) (spasíbo)
• Spanish: gracias (es)
• Turkish: teşekkürler (tr)
• Welsh: diolch (cy)

Anagrams

• Escher, Reches, Scheer, creesh

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cheers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃeːrs/, [tʃɪːrs]
• Hyphenation: cheers

Interjection

cheers

1. (informal) cheers (toast)

Synonyms

• proost, gezondheid, santé, schol, prut

Anagrams

• scheer, schere