dada
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
Word Origin
- dada
- 1920, from French dada "hobbyhorse," child's nonsense word, selected 1916 by Romanian poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), leader of the movement, for its resemblance to meaningless babble.Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, the howl of clashing colors, the intertwining of all contradictions, grotesqueries, trivialities: LIFE. [T. Tzara, "Dada Manifesto," 1918] Related: Dadaist; Dadaism.
Example
- 1. Dada , surrealism , and their heritage .
- 2. Dada er area a parked car damaged .
- 3. The current master of business dada is david thorne , an australian designer and blogger who cites his chief interest as reciting prime numbers backwards .
- 4. I could remember babbling on and on in urdu , telling my dada just how much I wanted a car like this .
- 5. And the declustering methods and grid spatial index in dada management are introduced .