adda

American  

[uh-dah, a-dah] / ˈʌ dɑ, ˈæ dɑ /

noun

addas plural

1. (in South Asia, especially Bengal)

   1. an informal social gathering centered around conversation.

   2. a lively, informal conversation.

   3. a place to meet, especially for conversation or illicit drinking.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• addas
  plural

Example Sentences

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adda addas

Some of Bengal’s favorite icons would hold adda at the Coffee House, from the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray to Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel in economic science.

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

“And when you think about adda you think about adda integrally tied to the space of adda — you talk about the Coffee House adda, the Favorite Cabin adda.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

Baker’s book is itself not unlike the Calcutta adda.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

In the inscriptions Eri-Aku or Eri-Sin also calls himself adda Emutbala, “father of Yamutbālu,” and, as the colophon-date of the 31st year of Ḫammurabi shows, Rîm-Sin or Rîm-Aku was also king of that region.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

Adda maysa nga ealapati nga nagna ti tinga ti ili manocayo cona ti ari no adda mainayon nga pisi justo nga dua polo cami.

From A Little Book of Filipino Riddles by Starr, Frederick

In this book he transfers to similars what Euclid had said of equals, and he formulates this axiom: Si similibus addas similia, tota sunt similia.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.