Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Bustle; fuss; trouble; bother.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To do.
- In doing; being done.
- n. Doing; action; business; bustle; trouble; labor; difficulty: as, to persuade one with much ado.
- n. A suffix of Latin origin, the Spanish masculine form of -ade, -ate, as in renegado, desperado, etc. In some words -ado is an erroneous form of -ada, as in bastinado. See -ada.
Wiktionary
- n. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
- n. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. To do; in doing.
- n. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a rapid active commotion
Etymologies
- Northern Middle English at do ("to do"), supine of Middle English do, don "to do". Influenced by Old Norse practice of marking supines using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå "to go"). More at at, do (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from the phrase at do : at, to (used with infinitive) (from Old Norse at; see ad- in Indo-European roots) + do, do; see do1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My cuñado is an American citizen and one of his sons was born in México, his mother is from Canada but she has lived in The US for over 40 years.”
“Not being a Canadian, I can't specifically answer your question, but but my cuñado is a dual US-Mexican citizen.”
“However, ladies and gentlemen, you haven't come here to listen to me" (this evokes applause, the first of the evening), "so without more ado" (the man always has the impression that there's been a lot of "ado," but I never see any of it) "I'll now introduce Mr. Leacock.”
“The novel is of its very nature an "ado," an ado about something, and the larger the form it takes the greater of course the ado.”
“So without further 'ado' here's my Future of the Left article from the June issue of”
“Without further ado, we present: the 10 bitchiest reality stars of all time.”
The Huffington Post: The Stir: 10 Bitchiest Reality Stars of All Time (PHOTOS)
“And without further ado, here's Charity dancing to These Precious Things by Tori Amos.”
The Huffington Post: Ali MacLean: KCRW Presents: Girls, Girls, Girls
“Without further ado, here are some of my savvy stylish flying tips:”
“So without further ado, here's his "Avengers" video -- let the Easter egg-hunting commence!”
The Washington Post: People of Earth, Attention!: This 'Avengers' is the Fan Video of the Day
“KB: There has been much ado in the states lately about banning plastic bags; cities are banning them and we're learning to love canvas in their place.”
The Huffington Post: Kimberly Brooks: Artist John Dahlsen: Making Lemonade Out Of Trash
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ado’.
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Public List: Two by Fives
This is an experiment in public lists--something I've been thinking about for some time. The goal is to create a collection of short, powerful, evocative words.
This is an open list. A...icy, howl, hymn, thorn, fire, vile, mist, blunt, scum, dark, shot, gleam and 221 more...
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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501
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abhor, mirth, obtuse, iota, vex, irk, teem, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane and 401 more...
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501
Classic
irk, teem, blight, pith, moot, mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado and 401 more...
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501
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bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august and 401 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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My daily Wordsheets
paramour, flail, addle, adduce, adduction, adenitis, adenocarcinoma, adhocracy, adiabatic, adipocyte, adiposity, postpone and 25 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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5000 FREE SAT Words
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 229 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ado.
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