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ado

/əˈduː/

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hypercorrect/əˈdjuː/

ado noun: trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.

Noun

ado (uncountable)

  1. Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.
    • Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
      It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
      But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
      What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
      I am to learn;
      And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,
      That I have much ado to know myself.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: ADO

ADO

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.

ado meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

ado in Urdu

اڈو, ایڈو

ado in Bengali

অ্যাডো

ado in Telugu

అడో

ado in Malayalam

അഡോ, ആഡോ
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ado in Kannada
ಅಡೋ

Synonyms of ado

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Origin of ado

From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.

Words formed from ado

  • ADO.NET

Phrases with ado

Words that rhyme with ado

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Questions about ado

What does ado mean?
Ado means trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.
What is ado in Urdu?
Ado in Urdu is اڈو, ایڈو. See Ado meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ado?
Ado can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ado?
Ado is pronounced /əˈduː/.

Words near ado in the dictionary

  1. adnomination
  2. adnominations
  3. adnoun
  4. adnouns
  5. Adnyamathanha
  6. ado
  7. Ado Ekiti
  8. adobe
  9. adobe bread
  10. adobe breads
  11. adobe lilies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ado (page history and authors); ADO (page history and authors); ado (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ado (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ado (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ado (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ado (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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