Dad

//dæd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    One’s father. informal

    "Dad told me to go out and mow the lawn."

  2. 2
    Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang

    "Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember."

Noun
  1. 1
    A father, a male parent. informal

    "His dad was always there for him."

  2. 2
    A lump or piece.
  3. 3
    Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”). alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    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.
  5. 5
    an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk wordnet
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  1. 6
    Used to address one's father; often capitalized.

    "Happy Father's Day, dad!"

  2. 7
    A blow; act of striking something.
  3. 8
    Acronym of diffuse alveolar damage. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  4. 9
    Used to address an older adult male. slang
  5. 10
    Acronym of Dutch angel dragon. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To be a father to; to parent.
  2. 2
    To throw against something; to dash. transitive
  3. 3
    To act like a dad.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic.

Etymology 4

From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic.

Etymology 5

Proprialisation of dad.

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