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Meaning of da | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
dɑː

Definitions

  1. A great serpent in the mythology of Dahomey.
  2. Initialism of district attorney.
  3. Initialism of Department of the Army.
  4. Father.
    Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland
  5. Yes; an affirmative response.
  6. Initialism of duck's arse (“type of haircut”).
  7. Initialism of Department of Agriculture.
  8. Initialism of Doctor of Arts.
  9. Initialism of Democratic Alliance.
    South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  10. Initialism of domain administration.
  11. The station code of Dhaka railway station in Bangladesh.
  12. Initialism of dairy association.
  13. Initialism of doomsday argument.
  14. Initialism of dopamine.
  15. Initialism of domoic acid.
  16. Initialism of descending aorta.
  17. Initialism of ductus arteriosus.
  18. Initialism of domain authority.
  19. Initialism of devolved administration.
  20. Initialism of direct action.

Equivalents

Bosanski da da
Deutsch Knan
Français da da DA
Hrvatski da da
Italiano da da da
Kurdî da da da
Português
Српски da da da

Examples

““Dear, but you're like your grandmother!” she continued, patting the little girl's head. “Many a penny's worth I sold to your da, when he was weer than you are.””
“Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?”
“Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.”
“I was twelve when the das started killing themselves all around me”
“1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Went to a new haircutters, told him I wanted a DA and sideburns, and that "your ultimate goal is to make me look like a boy".”
“Once all the votes are counted, if the ANC remains below 50% it will be forced to enter a coalition with one or more parties. Depending on how low its support dips, it may need to form a deal with one of the larger opposition parties such as the DA or EFF to remain in power.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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