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da
1[ duh; Italian dah; Portuguese duh, dah ]
preposition
- from; of (used in Italian and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin):
Lorenzo da Ponte; Vasco da Gama.
DA
2[ dee-ey ]
noun
- a male hairstyle, especially of the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head.
da
3[ dah ]
adverb
- yes.
DA
4- Department of Agriculture.
- Dictionary of Americanisms.
da.
5abbreviation for
- daughter.
- day; days.
DA.
6abbreviation for
- (in Algeria) dinar; dinars.
D/A
7- (sometimes lowercase) days after acceptance.
- deposit account.
- documents against acceptance.
- documents for acceptance.
D.A.
8abbreviation for
- delayed action.
- direct action.
- District Attorney.
- documents against acceptance.
- documents for acceptance.
- doesn't answer; don't answer.
D/A
1abbreviation for
- deposit account
- commerce documents against acceptance
DA
2abbreviation for
- (in the US) District Attorney
- Diploma of Art
- duck's arse (hairstyle)
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Example Sentences
At his office, Bell recalled how Mitchell had only been able to print “D-A-I-D” when asked to sign his name on the statement.
Each phratry (De--non-d-a-yoh) is a brotherhood as this term also imports.
In fact, Kathleen would be d-a-m-n-e-d, darned, if she would.
“Invite–your–friends–to–our–d-a-n-c-e,” slowly spelled out Tomoke, giving back diamond for diamond.
The total depravity of the type-writing machine caused the mechanism to spell Montana in the letters I-d-a-h-o.
She took a bit of notepaper from her capacious pocket, and peering at it, spelled aloud, “D-a-v-i-d——”
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