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Ida

/ˈaɪdə/

Ida proper noun: a female given name from the Germanic languages.

Proper noun (1)

Ida

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • "Ida!!!"
      "It is not a common, but an ancient name in Greece", said the diako,"and was borne by the wife of Lycastus and the mother of the Cretan Minos."
      Osmyn blushed to have been over-heard, and suffered his heart alone to repeat again the sweet and simple name of "Ida".1809, Sydney Owenson, Woman, or, Ida of Athens, page 127
    • That's what they called me," she said. "My real name's Ida." The old and vulgarised Grecian name recovered a little dignity1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Compact Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 16

Proper noun (2)

Ida (plural Idas)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (3)

Ida

  1. (Greek) Either of two sacred mountains situated in present-day Turkey and Crete, also called Mount Ida.

Proper noun (4)

Ida

  1. A river in eastern Slovakia.

Proper noun (5)

Ida

  1. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

Proper noun (6) capitalized: IDA

IDA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, UN) Initialism of International Development Association.

Noun capitalized: IDA

IDA (countable and uncountable, plural IDAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, nutrition) Initialism of iron deficiency anemia.
  2. An industrial development agency.

Forms of Ida

Proper noun
pluralIdas
Noun
pluralIDAs

Origin of Ida

Short form of obsolete names beginning with Germanic īd "work", used for both sexes in medieval England. It was revived in the 19th century, partly mistaken for a Greek name, for the Mount Ida of classical mythology.

Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Japanese 井田 (Ida, “rice paddy by the well”). * Matronymic surname from the female given name Ida.

From Ancient Greek Ἴδη (Ídē).

Words formed from Ida

Words that rhyme with Ida

Questions about Ida

What does Ida mean?
Ida means a female given name from the Germanic languages.
What part of speech is Ida?
Ida can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Ida?
Ida is pronounced /ˈaɪdə/.

Words near Ida in the dictionary

  1. ID'd
  2. id.
  3. ID/LP
  4. ID10T
  5. ID10Ts
  6. Ida
  7. Ida Bay
  8. Ida County
  9. Ida Grove
  10. Ida'an
  11. Ida-Viru County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ida (page history and authors); IDA (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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