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  aba

  noun

  a variant of abaya.
• Aba
  Aba

  noun

  a town in SE Nigeria.
• ABA
  ABA

  Amateur Boxing Association.

aba

¹ American  

[uh-bah, ah-buh] / əˈbɑ, ˈɑ bə /

Or abba

noun

1. a variant of abaya.

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Aba ² American  

[ah-bah] / ɑˈbɑ /

noun

1. a town in SE Nigeria.

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ABA ³ American  

Or A.B.A.

1. Amateur Boxing Association.

2. American Badminton Association.

3. American Bankers Association.

4. American Bar Association.

5. American Basketball Association.

6. American Book Award.

7. American Booksellers Association.

8. Associate in Business Administration.

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ABA ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. (in Britain) Amateur Boxing Association

2. American Booksellers Association

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aba ² British  

/ ˈæbə /

noun

1. a type of cloth from Syria, made of goat hair or camel hair

2. a sleeveless outer garment of such cloth

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Etymology

Origin of aba

from Arabic

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Example Sentences

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aba Aba ABA

Osgood worked in an aba program for six years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like most other children at the school, she started aba therapy at home as a toddler.

From Time Magazine Archive

Naffisa Abdullah, an Arab woman dressed in a black head scarf and a navy blue aba, says she will resist any attempts to force her out of her home.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the rigorous heart of aba, explains executive director Bridget Taylor, who co-founded the school in 1988.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can’t see my father, and I’m trying to cry out, Where is aba, where is my father?

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

This is particularly important for the varied menus at Aba and Ema, which Jacobson describes broadly as having a Mediterranean influence, featuring flavors from Israel, as well as Italy, Turkey, Greece, Egypt and Morocco.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023

Both mines are located at Aba, a Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in northwestern Sichuan.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023

At Aba in Bal Harbour, the laid-back Middle Eastern mini chain from the Chicago-based hospitality group Lettuce Entertain You, where cold meze and kebabs dominate the menu, there are little wooden stools for bags.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

He was waiting at Aba the potter’s late that afternoon when Heqet came running down the dusty street.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

In ABA, common activities such as snacking can become therapeutic tasks, as workers help children learn how to request the food they want.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The big therapy chains focus on applied behavior analysis, or ABA, commonly given in clinics or at home to children as young as 2.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The ABA last month proposed eliminating its requirement for full-time faculty to teach the first one-third of coursework.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

If state licensing boards loosen the grip that ABA accreditation has enjoyed for decades, innovative and technologically driven market entrants will create modern curricula that better reflect what the practice of law entails.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Songs in which the first section returns again at the end are known as ternary, three-part or ABA.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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