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Ada en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈeɪdə/

Etymology

Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (“noble”), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.

Meanings

  1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
    • Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child! / Ada! Sole daughter of my house and heart? 1818 George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the third: I
  2. An object-oriented programming language extended from Pascal and other languages.
    • If anything, Ada is actually fairly easy to learn. The syntax is so explicit, that it is much more difficult to misunderstand what the code is doing than in C/C++. 2019, Andrew T. Shvets, Beginning Ada Programming: From Novice to Professional, Apress, →ISBN, page 11:
  3. A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  4. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A census-designated place in Ottawa County, Kansas.
  5. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township and unincorporated community therein, in Kent County, Michigan.
  6. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Norman County, Minnesota.
  7. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township in Dickey County, North Dakota.
  8. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A village in Hardin County, Ohio.
  9. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city, the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma.
  10. A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
  11. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township in Perkins County, South Dakota.
  12. A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia.
  13. A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
  14. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Deriveds

Ada County · Floydada · Adalynn · Adalyn

wikidata: Q154755 · wikidata: Q346047