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dad
CEFRA1
/dæd/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A child's word for their father.
- 02
noun
Extra detailUsed to address one's father; often capitalized.
Examples
It looks like Yokkun's dad ran off with his nursery school teacher.
What's the matter, dad? Why are you grimacing like that?
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 2
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA father, a male parent.
Used to address an older adult male.
verb
Extra meaningTo be a father to; to parent.
More examples
In contextYou should apologize to Dad for not coming home in time for supper.
Dad told me to go out and mow the lawn.
His dad was always there for him.
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Origin
noun
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”)...