Jump To:

• Adad
  Adad

  noun

  Babylonian god of storms and wind.
• ADAD
  ADAD

  noun

  a coded card or other device that when inserted into a telephone allows the user to reach a number without dialing.

Adad

¹ American  

[ah-dahd] / ˈɑ dɑd /

noun

1. Babylonian god of storms and wind.

---

ADAD ² American  

[ey-dad] / ˈeɪ dæd /

noun

1. a coded card or other device that when inserted into a telephone allows the user to reach a number without dialing.

---

Etymology

Origin of ADAD

a(utomatic telephone) d(ialing-)a(nnouncing) d(evice)

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Adad

These tablets reveal that Ebla especially worshipped the storm god Adad, who was honored with the title “Ba‘al” or lord.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But below him, an image of Adad, the god of weather, is barely visible - lost to the ravages of time and climate change.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2022

If Ad be a chief, or king; Adad should be superlatively so, and signify a king of kings.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Bryant, Jacob

A characteristic atmospheric deity was Ramman, the Rimmon of the Bible, the Semitic Addu, Adad, Hadad, or Dadu.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

A peculiar difficulty arises in the case of the god of storms, who, written IM, was generally known in Babylonia as Ramman, "the thunderer," whereas in Assyria he also had the designation Adad.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various