dad

Phonetic

US /dæd/UK /dæd/

Translations

NOUNA father, a male parent., Used to address one's father, Used to address an older adult male, A lump or piece., A blow; act of striking something., Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”), 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; compare AAD, ADD, DDD., Acronym of Diffuse Alveolar Damage.

VERBTo throw against something; to dash.

PROPNOne’s father., Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

Variants

dads: Third Person Singular, Plural
dadding: Present Participle
dadded: Past Participle, Past Tense

Examples

He toils in cities across China to send money back to his family, but has been away for so long that his son calls him “that man” instead of “Dad.”
Source:cn.nytimes.com
He used to park his car improperly, taking up public parking spaces, and then he even turned around and falsely accused my dad of damaging his car.
Source:www.reddit.com
to one-up each other: “We used to have to get out of the lake at three o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at t’mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle,
Source:www.theguardian.com
My Dad died on my birthday
Source:www.reddit.com
Dating shows that center the love lives of older people have created an unusual dynamic: the chance to watch mom or dad flirt on TV.
Source:www.nytimes.com

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