nada
pronunciation
How to pronounce nada in British English:
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- Noun:
- a quantity of no importance
Word Origin
- nada (n.)
- "nothing," 1933, slang, introduced by Hemingway, from Spanish nada "nothing," from Latin (res) nata "small, insignificant thing," literally "(thing) born" (see natal).
Example
- 1. Rumors of a tablet smaller than the ipad abound , but so far nada .
- 2. Instead of prayers of thanksgiving rising to my lips , it was this nada whose birth is possible only at the sight of landscapes crushed by the sun .
- 3. " All the things that make women think this is not the time to have a baby are risk factors for having mental health problems , " said dr. nada stotland , a psychiatrist at rush medical college in chicago .