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• 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.

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ADAD ² American  

[ay-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.

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Etymology

Origin of ADAD

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

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Example Sentences

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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 Jacob Bryant

As to Ashur-mukîn-palêa, about whom the king, our lord, has sent to us, may Ashur, Bêl, Sin, Shamash, and Adad be gracious to him.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

They gave to the god whom they venerate as the highest and the greatest the name Adad, and which means unus or one.

From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous

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