Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A father.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A father; papa.
- noun A lump; a large piece: as, a dad of bread.
- To dash; throw; scatter.
- In coal-mining, to mix (fire-damp) with atmospheric air to such an extent that it becomes incapable of exploding.
- To fall forcibly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal A
father , a maleparent . - noun familiar Used to address one's father
- noun slang Used to address an older adult male
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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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About the entire my dad has cool CDs even though he is my * dad*.
hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004
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Mine was one of the first white families to move here in the middle of the race riots while I was a baby (my dad is a teacher).
Greatest Person Of The Day: Elisabeth Mason, CEO and Co-Founder of Single Stop The Huffington Post 2010
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They dont seem to like me all that much but my dad is a different story.
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Yes | No | Report from shermanator wrote 5 weeks 4 days ago my dad is a teacher and loves it because we always take a couple of kids hunting afterwards so i love and i hope to become a teacher to help pass it on cause its a cool thing to do
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Yes | No | Report from shermanator wrote 5 weeks 4 days ago my dad is a teacher and loves it because we always take a couple of kids hunting afterwards so i love and i hope to become a teacher to help pass it on cause its a cool thing to do
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Mine was one of the first white families to move here in the middle of the race riots while I was a baby (my dad is a teacher).
Greatest Person Of The Day: Elisabeth Mason, CEO and Co-Founder of Single Stop The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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When your dad is a mailman and your mom is a hippie, you get an education any way you can, Steve.
Free Trade in Tech Labor, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Because my dad is a neat freak and he would be so upset if he knew I'd let some soap scum accumulate on the shower, or toothpaste gum up the sink.
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Mine was one of the first white families to move here in the middle of the race riots while I was a baby (my dad is a teacher).
Greatest Person Of The Day: Elisabeth Mason, CEO and Co-Founder of Single Stop The Huffington Post 2010
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Give us a break, your dad is a criminal, not only because of this recent scandal but his envolvement with Halliburton, That's one reason Cheney wanted the Iraq War, so he could get his company in there and make all that money off the lives of our men and women in service ....... he should also be Tried for Murder (For every man and woman that has died in Iraq)
frogapplause commented on the word dad
The Persian word for a "stampede".
June 25, 2008
lampbane commented on the word dad
Da Nang International Airport.
October 24, 2008
tbtabby commented on the word dad
Means "wet nurse" in Albanian. (A doubly false friend!)
July 13, 2009
duckbill commented on the word dad
The child's way of expressing father. It is remarkable, that, in all parts of the world, the word for father, as first taught to children, is compounded of a and t, or the kindred letter d differently placed; as tad, Welsh; ἄττα, Greek; atta, Gothick; tata, Latin. Mammas atque tatas habet Afra, Mart.] Father.
I was never so bethumpt with words,
Since first I call’d my brother’s father dad. Shakesp. K. John.
His loving mother left him to my care;
Fine child, as like his dad as he could stare! Gay.
(Johnson's Dictionary)
April 19, 2011