Meanings
ta1
ta2
- pronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.
hasta
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Go on, break out a "how's yew 'uns doin'? Right pleasure ta meet yew ’uns"!
2009, Kiyohiko Azuma, “The Osakan's here y'all”, in Stephen Paul, transl., edited by Yen Press, Azumanga Daioh Ominbus, New York City, →ISBN, page 29
ta3
TA4
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Territorial Army.
plural TAs
- abbreviationcountableinitialismInitialism of transportation authority.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismInitialism of teaching assistant.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismInitialism of travel agent.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismaeronauticsInitialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
- abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of transactional analysis.
- abbreviationinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of term assurance.
present singular third person TAs · present singular third person TA's · participle present TAing · participle present TA'ing · participle past TAed · past TAed · participle past TA'd · past TA'd · participle past TA'ed · past TA'ed · participle past TAd · past TAd
- intransitivetransitiveTo act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.
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The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounIn solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.
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nouna hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
ta · interjection
- Proto-Germanic*þankō
- Old Norseþǫkk
- Danishtak
- Englishta
Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks. Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.
More words from Danish, Old Norse, Proto-Germanic
Full word history & related roots →ta · noun
Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.
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Rhymes with ta
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ta. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ta
“ta.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ta. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ta,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ta.
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