Usually means: Art movement rejecting conventional aesthetics.
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  1. Dada: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dada, dada, dada: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Dada: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Dada: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Dada, dada: Wiktionary
  8. dada: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dada: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  12. dada: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. DaDa, Dada (Dada album), Dada (band), Dada (disambiguation), Dada (song), Dada: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. dada: Rhymezone
  15. DADA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. dada: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dada: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Dada: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Dada: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dada: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Dada: art glossary

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  1. Dada: Encyclopedia

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  1. dada: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dada: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dadas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (DADA)

noun:  (childish) Father, dad.
noun:  A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Dada (“cultural movement”). [A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.]
noun:  Initialism of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

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