aba
noun
a variant of abaya.
aba
1 American
[uh-bah, ah-buh]
/ əˈbɑ, ˈɑ bə /
Or
abba
noun
Aba
2
American
[ah-bah]
/ ɑˈbɑ /
noun
ABA
3
American
Or
A.B.A.
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Amateur Boxing Association.
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American Badminton Association.
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American Bankers Association.
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American Bar Association.
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American Basketball Association.
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American Booksellers Association.
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Associate in Business Administration.
ABA
1
British
abbreviation
-
(in Britain) Amateur Boxing Association
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American Booksellers Association
aba
2
British
/ ˈæbə /
noun
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a type of cloth from Syria, made of goat hair or camel hair
-
a sleeveless outer garment of such cloth
Etymology
Origin of aba
from Arabic
Vocabulary lists containing aba
Example Sentences
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Osgood worked in an aba program for six years.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Tristram Smith of the University of Rochester: "Anything outside aba is basically experimental at this point."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm a scientist-practitioner; I need data," says Taylor, a certified aba therapist with a Ph.D. in psychology.
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 Pope has made a lot of efforts to make our faith inclusive... I remember him with joy," Ghanaian Catholic Aba Amissah Quainoo told the BBC in the capital, Accra.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
And for other ideas on how to update traditional Rosh Hashanah recipes, read Salon Food's interview with "Top Chef" alum CJ Jacobson on how he's approaching his holiday menu at his restaurant Aba.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
The region where the mines are located is home to about 1.4 million tonnes of lithium, a mining report by Aba government in January showed.
From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023
“Rekh is a kinsman of his brother’s wife. You will meet me, then? Perhaps at the big tree by Aba the potter’s. Then we will go on together. Zau’s shop is near the palace.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Thompkins, the Arizona mother who sent her son to kindergarten, said he has switched to a new therapy provider, Cortica, where he is getting about 25 hours a week of ABA after school.
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
The Education Department also suggests that the accreditation shop isn’t sufficiently separate and independent from the ABA, as regulations require.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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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