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dad

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/dæd/

Definition of dad

14 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)A father, a male parent.
    “His dad was always there for him.”
    “A lot of the power for dads comes in the form of modeling. As much as dads can teach their sons directly and guide them in the world, they also provide an example of who their children can aim to be as they grow up, Singley said. “There are going to be the times when as the dad I’m going to screw up,” he said.”
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noun

  1. (informal)A father, a male parent.
    “His dad was always there for him.”
    “A lot of the power for dads comes in the form of modeling. As much as dads can teach their sons directly and guide them in the world, they also provide an example of who their children can aim to be as they grow up, Singley said. “There are going to be the times when as the dad I’m going to screw up,” he said.”
  2. Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
    “Happy Father's Day, dad!”
  3. (slang)Used to address an older adult male.
  4. A lump or piece.
  5. A blow; act of striking something.
  6. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”).
  7. A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in digital but mixed in analog before being mastered to a digital medium.
  8. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of diffuse alveolar damage.
  9. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang)Acronym of Dutch angel dragon.

verb

  1. To be a father to; to parent.
  2. To act like a dad.
  3. (transitive)To throw against something; to dash.

name

  1. (informal)One’s father.
    “Dad told me to go out and mow the lawn.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang)Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard).
    “Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember.”

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Etymology

From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps…

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From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).

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