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didi

didi noun: a respectful term of address to any familiar older woman.

Noun

didi (plural didis)

  1. (India) A respectful term of address to any familiar older woman.

Proper noun capitalized: Didi

Didi

  1. A female given name.
  2. A hypocorism of the given name Deirdre.

Forms of didi

pluraldidis

Origin of didi

Borrowed from Hindi दीदी (dīdī, used as a form of respect, literally “elder sister”).

Questions about didi

What does didi mean?
Didi means a respectful term of address to any familiar older woman.
What part of speech is didi?
Didi can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of didi?
The plural of didi is didis.

Words near didi in the dictionary

  1. didgeridooing
  2. didgeridooist
  3. didgeridooists
  4. didgeridoos
  5. didges
  6. didi
  7. didicoi
  8. didicois
  9. didicoy
  10. didicoys
  11. didie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: didi (page history and authors); Didi (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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