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Meanings of '''Ada''':

== People ==

* Variant transliteration of Hebrew [[Adah]] (עָדָה)
* [[Ada Lovelace]] (née Ada Byron)
* [[Ada, Countess of Holland]]
* Ada, sister of [[Charlemagne]], for whom the [[Ada Gospels]] at Trier were produced
* [[Ada de Warenne]], Countess of [[Earl of Northumbria|Northumbria]] and [[Earl of Huntingdon|Huntingdon]] (d. 1178)
* [[Ada of Caria|Ada]] [[Caria|of Caria]], [[satrap]] deposed by her brother [[Idrieus]] and restored by [[Alexander the Great]]
* [[Ada Choi]], [[Hong Kong]] actress
* [[Ada Negri]] (1870-1945), [[Italy|Italian]] [[poet]]
* [[Ada Nicodemou]], [[Australia]]n actress
* [[Ada Wong]], a character from the video games ''Resident Evil 2'' and ''Resident Evil 4''
* [[Ada (Castlevania)]], a character from the video game ''Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness''
* [[St. Ada]], a 7th-century French abbess.

== Places ==

* [[Ada, Afghanistan]]
* [[Ada, Saskatchewan]], [[Canada]]
* [[Ada, Ghana]]
* [[Ada, Greece]]
* [[Ada, Nigeria]]
* [[Ada, Serbia]]
* [[Ada, Oregon]], U.S. (historical)
* [[Ada County, Idaho]], U.S.
* [[Ada Division, Oklahoma]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Alabama]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Arkansas]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Kansas]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Louisiana]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Minnesota]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Ohio]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Oklahoma]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Virginia]], U.S.
* [[Ada, Wisconsin]], U.S.
* [[Ada, West Virginia]], U.S.
* [[Ada Township, Michigan]], U.S.
* [[Ada Township, North Dakota]], U.S.
* [[Ada Township, South Dakota]], U.S.

== Other ==

* [[Ada (programming language)]]
* [[Ada (orchid)|''Ada'' (orchid)]], a genus of orchids
* [[Ada (demon)]], A demon, after which [[Adasaurus]] was named
* [[Ada (dog actor)]], who played Colin on the sitcom ''Spaced''

===[[Culture]]===

* ''[[Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle]]'' is a 1969 novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1969)
* [[Ada (film)|''Ada'' (film)]], a film directed by [[Daniel Mann]], with [[Susan Hayward]] and [[Dean Martin]]
* Ada and Kal are characters typical of the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Göteborg]] genre of comedy.

=== Non-English words ===

* Ada means "[[island]]" in [[Turkish language|Turkish]] and in [[Serbian language|Serbian]]
* Ada means "father" in [[Sindarin|Sindarin Elvish]]
* Ada means "first daughter" in [[Igbo language|Igbo]]
* Ada means "poise or grandeur" in Hindi

=== Abbreviations ===

See [[ADA]]

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