Dada

Meaning

A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.

Synonyms

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɑːdɑː/
Etymology

From French dada (literally “hobby horse”).

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