Ida

¹

[ahy-duh]

noun

1. Turkish Kazdaği. Mount, a mountain in W Turkey, in NW Asia Minor, SE of ancient Troy. 5,810 feet (1,771 meters).

2. Modern Name Mount Psiloriti. the highest mountain in Crete. 8,058 feet (2,456 meters).

3. a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “happy.”

IDA

²

1. International Development Association.

-ida

³

Zoology.

1. a suffix of the names of orders and classes.

   Arachnida.

Ida.

⁴

abbreviation

1. Idaho.

Ida

¹

/ ˈaɪdə /

noun

1. Modern Greek name: Idhi. a mountain in central Crete: the highest on the island; in ancient times associated with the worship of Zeus. Height: 2456 m (8057 ft)

2. Turkish name: Kaz Daği. a mountain in NW Turkey, southeast of the site of ancient Troy. Height: 1767 m (5797 ft)

Ida.

²

abbreviation

1. Idaho

IDA

³

abbreviation

1. International Development Association

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ida¹

< New Latin, taken as neuter plural of Latin -idēs offspring of < Greek; -id ¹

Example Sentences

In 1892, for example, the Memphis office of Black journalist Ida B. Wells was destroyed by a mob whose members threatened to kill her after she wrote an article condemning the lynching of three Black men who owned a successful grocery store.

From Salon

I argued that Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells were doing the same work as Darnella Frazier: using journalism as a tool for witnessing and activism.

From Los Angeles Times

Zurie will be joining The Times on June 9 as an Ida B. Wells Society intern.

From Los Angeles Times

Its widescreen picture of the phenomenon is braided with details of people like Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a Mississippi sharecropper who headed to Chicago to escape violent racism at home, only to discover a complicated network of bigotry and industry in the Midwest.

From Los Angeles Times

He said eight opportunities had been missed "to alter Ida's clinical course".

From BBC