Dada
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dada¹
Where it comes from
Imitative of a child's first syllables; see dad.
noun dadas
- Father, dad.
dada²
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”).Dada
Dada³
- /ˈdɑːdɑː/ UK
Where it comes from
From French dada (literally “hobby horse”).
noun
- 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.
DADA⁴
proper noun
- Initialism of Defense Against the Dark Arts.Defense Against the Dark Arts
