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na·da

(nä′də)

pron. Slang

Nothing; zero.

[Spanish, nothing, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *(rēs) nāta, born (thing), anything (used in the phrase *nōn ... rēs nāta, not ... anything, literally "not a born thing," probably on the model of *hominēs nātī, anyone, literally "born people") : Latin rēs, thing + Latin nāta, feminine of nātus, past participle of nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

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nada

(ˈnɑːdə)

chiefly informal US nothing

[C20: Spanish]

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nada - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

goose egg, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipher

relative quantity - a quantity relative to some purpose

nihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet"

Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"

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nada

[ˈnɑːdə] pron (= nothing) → rien, nada , rien, wallou

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