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TA¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Territorial Army

noun TAs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of transportation authority
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of teaching assistant
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of travel agent
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of target audience
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of time attack
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
  7. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of transactional analysis
  8. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of term assurance

verb TAs · TA's · TAing · TA'ing · TAed

  1. intransitive, transitive To act as a teaching assistant (for a class). The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of toxin-antitoxin

ta²

  • /tɑː/
  • [tʰɑː]

Rhymes with -ɑː

Where it comes from

Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks.

Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.

interjection taa

  1. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial Thanks. Ta for the cup of tea.
  2. Commonwealth, childish give (imperative) Mummy needs the bottle back. Ta!

ta³

  • /tə/

preposition

  1. pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants. Go on, break out a "how's yew 'uns doin'? Right pleasure ta meet yew ’uns"!

ta⁴

  • /tɑː/

Rhymes with -ɑː

Where it comes from

Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.

noun

  1. uncountable In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.

    Similar: te, B-flat, li

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: tantalum, pha, nb, hye, pok, nee, chun, yung, shma, shui, thanks, thanx, thankyou, thankee, cheers, obliged

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@misc{ta_2026,
  title = {ta},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ta},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}