Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A prefix of Greek origin, meaning in Greek, and so, with modifications, in modern speech, ‘through, right through, in different directions, asunder, between,’ etc.: often intensive, ‘thoroughly, utterly,’ etc.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel
dia- becomesdi-
WordNet 3.0
- n. an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek prefix δια- (dia-), from διά (διά, "through, across, by, over") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“100 Marable has praise for Harold Washington as well.101 For Marable, properly calibrated leftist political gradualism in the present promises to undo the entire American system in the future: “The revolt for reforms within the capitalist state today transcends itself dia- lectically to become a revolution against the racist/capitalist system tomorrow.””
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