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aida

aida noun: synonym of Aida cloth.

Noun (1)

aida (countable and uncountable, plural aidas)

  1. Synonym of Aida cloth.
    • Use a size 24 needle for most aidas, and a size 26 for evenweaves and linens.2021, Cross Stitcher, April 2021 edition, page 81
    • The benefit however of stitching on a higher count aida is that the overall project will be smaller, and you can fit in a greater level of detail.2022, Sally Wilson, Jump Into Cross Stitch, →ISBN, page 8
    Synonyms:
    Aida cloth

Proper noun (1) capitalized: AIDA

AIDA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Asteroid Impact & Deflection Mission.

Noun (2) capitalized: AIDA

AIDA (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of attention, interest, desire, action.

Noun (3) capitalized: Aida

Aida (countable and uncountable, plural Aidas)

  1. Synonym of Aida cloth.
    Synonyms:
    Aida cloth

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Aida

Aida

  1. A female given name from Italian in quiet use since the 1870s.
    • Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian. More laughter. Oh, I always live up to it.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23

Synonyms of aida

Forms of aida

pluralaidas
pluralAidas

Origin of aida

Borrowed from Italian Aida, made famous by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, which premiered in 1871.

Phrases with aida

Questions about aida

What does aida mean?
Aida means synonym of Aida cloth.
What part of speech is aida?
Aida can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of aida?
The plural of aida is aidas.

Words near aida in the dictionary

  1. aid worker
  2. aid workers
  3. aid-de-camp
  4. aid-major
  5. aid-majors
  6. aida
  7. Aida cloth
  8. Aida cloths
  9. aidable
  10. Aidan
  11. aidance

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aida (page history and authors); AIDA (page history and authors); Aida (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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