ida

1. 1.

   an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank

   SynonymsInternational Development Association

   BroaderUnited Nations agency

Other forms of ida

plural

idas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ida

What does ida mean?

ida means "an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank".

How many syllables are in ida?

ida has 2 syllables: i-da. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪdə/.

What is another word for ida?

Close synonyms include International Development Association. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ida a common word?

ida is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.