Meaning

5 senses

  1. Any of various traditional Chinese swords with a curved, single-edged blade, primarily used for slashing and chopping.

  2. (historical, uncountable, usually)Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

  3. A sword and construction tool of the Naga people of India, which has a wooden hilt and grows wider from the narrow hilt to the wide, flat tip.

  4. Dracontomelon dao; a large tree of the family Anacardiaceae; the argus pheasant tree.

  5. The hard strong wood of the dao used for veneers and cabinetwork.

Examples

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  1. Dora wants to learn about Dao.

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  2. Read the work "Dao De Jing: A Minimalist Translation."

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  3. Gao Dao is usually really suave, but he seems completely smitten in front of his girlfriend.

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  4. I do not dismiss the many forms of Animism, including Shinto and Dao, as well as other Native around this world.

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Origin

From Chinese 刀 (dāo, literally “single-edged blade”). Possibly a doublet of dah. From the

From Chinese 刀 (dāo, literally “single-edged blade”). Possibly a doublet of dah.

From the pinyin romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").

Likely related to one of the preceding words ("Chinese sword", "Burmese knife") or from Indo-Aryan. Compare Bengali দাও (daō).

From Tagalog or Cebuano dao.

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Forms

plural: daos
Singulardao
Pluraldaos

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
circuitB2

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
danishdankdapperdarcydareB1
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