Definitions for Dada

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Dada da·da

Spelling: [dah-dah]

IPA: /ˈdɑ dɑ/

Dada is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Dada (aadd).

Definitions for Dada

noun

1. the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.

Origin of Dada

1915-20; French: hobby horse, childish reduplication of da giddyap

Examples for Dada

Yes, dada, you may tell us, but we shan't promise to listen.

I am beginning to feel greater respect for dada's quatrains than before.

Then there is dada, to whom duty is the essence of life, not joy.

The other day we got in the car and I had a CD on, and he said, “dada, is that James Brown?”

At Performa, Shana Lutker revisits a wild dada play that featured a nose and some lips.

If he didn't, he would never have pulled dada outside his den.

You hear the hum of human bees, they smell the honey of dada's quatrains.

Was one of dada's fathers really such a mystery or did he show his true self in his art?

dada, how in the world can you go on writing verses like that, sitting in your den?

Perhaps he will not care to be called dada, but it is nevertheless true.