English-Thai Dictionary

addax

N กวาง ขนาดใหญ่  kwang-ka-nad-yai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADDARAC

n.Red orpiment.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ADDABLE

Add "a *ble, a. Etym: [Add, v. + -able. ]

 

Defn: Addible.

 

ADDAX

Ad "dax, n. Etym: [Native name. ] (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus ).

 

Note: It is now believed to be the Strepsiceros (twisted horn ) of the ancients. By some it is thought to be the pygarg of the Bible.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

adda

adda |ˈadˌdɑː | ▶noun Indian 1 a place where people gather for conversation. • an illicit drinking place. • [ mass noun ] informal conversation among a group of people. 2 a junction point for public transport. ORIGIN from Hindi aḍḍā, originally in the sense ‘perch for tame birds ’.

 

Addams, Charles

Ad dams, Charles |ˈadəmz ˈædəmz | (1912 –88 ), US cartoonist, noted for his macabre characters, which were brought to life in the television series The Addams Family (1964 –66 ), which was the basis for two movies in the 1990s; full name Charles Samuel Addams. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker magazine from 1935.

 

Addams, Jane

Ad dams, Jane |ˈædəmz ˈadəmz | (1860 –1935 ), US social reformer, feminist, and pacifist. In 1889 she founded Hull House, a center for the care and education of Chicago's poor and a national model for combating urban poverty and treating youthful offenders. She was a leader of the suffrage movement and an active pacifist. Nobel Peace Prize (1931 ).

 

addax

ad dax |ˈadˌaks ˈædæks | ▶noun a large antelope with a mainly grayish and white coat, native to the deserts of North Africa. [Addax nasomaculatus, family Bovidae. ] ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Latin, from an African word recorded by Pliny.

 

Oxford Dictionary

adda

adda |ˈadˌdɑː | ▶noun Indian 1 a place where people gather for conversation. • an illicit drinking place. • [ mass noun ] informal conversation among a group of people. 2 a junction point for public transport. ORIGIN from Hindi aḍḍā, originally in the sense ‘perch for tame birds ’.

 

Addams, Charles

Ad dams, Charles |ˈadəmz ˈædəmz | (1912 –88 ), US cartoonist, noted for his macabre characters, which were brought to life in the television series The Addams Family (1964 –66 ), which was the basis for two movies in the 1990s; full name Charles Samuel Addams. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker magazine from 1935.

 

Addams, Jane

Ad ¦dams |ˈadəmz | (1860 –1935 ), American social reformer, feminist, and pacifist. In 1889 she founded Hull House, a centre for the care and education of the poor of Chicago. Nobel Peace Prize (1931 ).

 

addax

addax |ˈadaks | ▶noun a large antelope with a mainly greyish and white coat, native to the deserts of North Africa. ●Addax nasomaculatus, family Bovidae. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from Latin, from an African word recorded by Pliny.