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tata

tata is the alternative form of ta-ta.

Meaning of ta-ta

Interjection

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, informal) Goodbye.
    • “[…]Well, ta-ta, sweetheart! Don′t expect me back to lunch.”1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, The Echo Library, published 2007, page 229
    Synonyms:
    bye, goodbye, hooroo

See all 2 meanings of ta-ta

Proper noun (1) capitalized: TATA

TATA

  1. The station code of Tatanagar Junction railway station in India.

Phrase capitalized: TATA

TATA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of there are thousands of alternatives (a rebuttal to the political slogan TINA).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tata

Tata

  1. A surname. found in India.

Forms of tata

pluraltatas

Origin of tata

Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.

Probably ultimately from baby-talk and related to teat, tit. Possibly borrowed through French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

Phrases with tata

Questions about tata

What does tata mean?
Tata means the station code of Tatanagar Junction railway station in India.
What is tata the alternative form of?
Tata is the alternative form of ta-ta.
What part of speech is tata?
Tata can be a proper noun or a phrase.

Words near tata in the dictionary

  1. tasuldine
  2. Taswegian
  3. Taswegians
  4. tat
  5. tat up
  6. tata
  7. TATA box
  8. TATA boxes
  9. tata for now
  10. Tatabánya
  11. tatac

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tata (page history and authors); TATA (page history and authors); Tata (page history and authors); ta-ta (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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