Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A European artistic and literary movement (1916–1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
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- noun A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly
poetry ),theatre , and graphic design, and was characterized bynihilism ,deliberate irrationality ,disillusionment ,cynicism , chance,randomness , and therejection of theprevailing standards inart .
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- noun 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
- noun an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have a lot of trouble reading things from the DADA class because, well, Dada isn't supposed to make sense, which makes it hard to anylize.
|2007-01-28 + 1:50 a.m.| classy-bitch 2007
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The songs are in different styles: opening the album is electronic jazz with dada texts (1-4), by fusion with Dada (5), progrock the epic text describing the modern world (6) to the experience of ethnic and rap, in the end pieces these.
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Born Idi Amin Dada, he was president of Uganda from 1971-1979.
Five of the Most Evil Rulers of the Twentieth Century | myFiveBest 2010
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A certain Dada-esque absurdity is probably the best contribution to discussions of this nature.
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Dada's Dance/China (Director: Zhang Yuan; Screenwriter: Li Xiaofeng) — Dada is a flirtatious young woman who lives with her mother in a small town.
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Those medical problems have left Beard in a bit of a fix, finance-wise, so on Sunday, Club Dada is hosting a benefit — actually, and awesomely, a Beard-i-fit — to rustle up some extra scratch.
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I think aloud what make them different form Mugabe, Sani Abacha, Mubarak, Idi Amin Dada or Mobutu?
06/13/2005 2005
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Last week, on the heels of the vice president of the United States 'shooting his hunting buddy in an opera buffa accident right out of "The Pickwick Papers," "Dada" -- a somewhat prim retrospective of modern art's wackiest movement -- opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (It runs through May 14.)
Come to Dada 2007
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• Rigby sits up, reaches out for me and calls "Dada" - and he's not even pooped every time he does it.
unknown title 2009
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• Rigby sits up, reaches out for me and calls "Dada" - and he's not even pooped every time he does it.
unknown title 2009
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