DADA


Meaning of DADA in English

[ 'dα:dα: ]

■ noun an early 20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.

Derivatives

~ism noun

~ist noun & adjective

~istic adjective

Origin

Fr., lit. 'hobby horse', the title of a review which appeared in Zurich in 1916.

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