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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Dadaist en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/ (UK)
Etymology
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English Dada
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English Dadaist
From Dada + -ist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the style of Dada.
Breton's Surrealist movement transformed Dadaist despair -- at both the war and the technologies that had led to it -- into a constructive assault on social and sexual norms.
2014 October 30, Ara Merjian, “How World War I gave birth to the modern”, in CNN:
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Dadaist en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree
English Dada
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English Dadaist
From Dada + -ist.
Meanings
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An artist or writer who practiced Dada.
To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century."
1999 December 27, Frederic Golden, “Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century”, in CNN:
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