Dada is a linguistic term used mainly in the arts to denote a movement characterized by deliberately nonsensical language and anti-art attitudes. In everyday usage, it can refer to a childish utterance or a nickname for a parent’s friend, but in scholarly contexts it designates a 20th‑century avant‑garde movement and its associated phenomena. The word is also used as a proper noun in some contexts (e.g., family names).
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