Index of English words, starting with "ad"

(1) - Adage (n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

(1) - Adagio (n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
(2) - Adagio (a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

(1) - Adam (n.) "Original sin;" human frailty.
(2) - Adam (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

(1) - Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.
(2) - Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

(1) - Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
(2) - Adamantine (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.