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dada

/ˈdɑːdɑː/

dada noun: father, dad. Also the alternative letter-case form of Dada.

Noun (1)

dada (plural dadas)

  1. (childish) Father, dad.

Proper noun capitalized: DADA

DADA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Noun (2) capitalized: Dada

Dada (uncountable)

  1. A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
    • Ironically enough, it was the anti-war stirrings of Dada that bore out its most immediate influence, first in Switzerland and then post-war Berlin.2014 October 30, Ara Merjian, “How World War I gave birth to the modern”, in CNN

Also used as

dada is also the alternative letter-case form of Dada.

dada meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

dada in Tamil

தாதா

dada in Telugu

దాదా

dada in Malayalam

ദാദാ

dada in Kannada

ದಾದಾ

Forms of dada

pluraldadas

Plural of dada: dadas

Origin of dada

Imitative of a child's first syllables; see dad.

From French dada (literally “hobby horse”).

Words formed from dada

Questions about dada

What does dada mean?
Dada means father, dad.
What is dada in Tamil?
Dada in Tamil is தாதா. See Dada meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dada?
Dada can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dada?
Dada is pronounced /ˈdɑːdɑː/ (UK).
What is the plural of dada?
The plural of dada is dadas.

Words near dada in the dictionary

  1. dad-blamed
  2. dad-blasted
  3. dad-burned
  4. dad-dancing
  5. dad-stache
  6. dada
  7. Dadaesque
  8. dadagiri
  9. dadah
  10. dadahol
  11. dadaism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dada (page history and authors); DADA (page history and authors); Dada (page history and authors); dada (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dada (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dada (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dada (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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