Standard Lemma guide

data

name · noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • dät'ə
  • rhymes with -ɑːtə
  • homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːtə/
  • South-Asia: /ɖɑʈɑ/
  • Australian, New-Zealand: [ˈdäːɾə]
  • AU!Australia Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • dā'tə
  • rhymes with -eɪtə
  • homophone: dater (non-rhotic)
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdeɪtə/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈdɛjtə/
  • South-Asia: /ɖeʈɑ/
  • [ˈdeɪɾə] US, flapping
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • dăt'ə
  • rhymes with -ætə
  • Canada, Ireland, US: /ˈdætə/
  • US: flapping Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • South-Asia: /ɖaʈɑ/
  • CMU ARPABET: D EY1 T AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: D AE1 T AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A barangay of Sabangan, Mountain Province, Philippines.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

plural of datum

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, plural

Examples

  • Holonym: data set
  • These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: data points

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: collective, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • Data can be sent through email.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Material recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and usually structured (such as statistics).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: collective, uncountable

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points
  • This data shows that X is correlated with Y.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dataset, data set, data points

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Ellipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, mobile-telephony, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony

Examples

  • run out of data

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • statistical data

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: information

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

Narrower terms: accounting data, metadata, raw data

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Kankanaey Data. See that for more details.

Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“to give”); by surface analysis, dat(um) + -a. Doublet of date.

Across languages

Translations

140 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: data — information
  • Albanian: të dhëna — information
  • Amharic: ውሂብ (wəhib) — information
  • Western Apache: beʼígózíni yíka ntaahí — information
  • Arabic: بَيَانَات (bayānāt) — information
  • Arabic: مَعْلُومَات (maʕlūmāt) — information
  • Arabic: مُعْطَيَات (muʕṭayāt) — information
  • Armenian: տվյալներ (tvyalner) — information
  • Azerbaijani: verilənlər — information
  • Azerbaijani: məlumat — information
  • Bashkir: мәғлүмәт (məğlümət) — information
  • Belarusian: да́ныя (dányja) — information
  • Belarusian: да́дзеныя (dádzjenyja) — information
  • Bengali: উপাত্ত (upatto) — information
  • Bulgarian: да́нни (dánni) — information
  • Burmese: အချက်အလက် (a.hkyak-a.lak) — information
  • Catalan: informació — information
  • Catalan: dades — information
  • Chinese Cantonese: 數據 /数据 (sou3 geoi3) — information
  • Chinese Cantonese: 資料 /资料 — information
  • Chinese: 數據 /数据 (sò͘-kì, sò͘-kù) — information
  • Chinese: 資料 /资料 (chu-liāu) — information
  • Chinese Mandarin: 數據 /数据 (shùjù) — information
  • Chinese Mandarin: 資料 /资料 (zīliào) — information
  • Chuvash: панӑлӑхсем (panălăhsem) — information
  • Czech: data — information
  • Czech: údaje — information
  • Danish: data — information
  • Dutch: gegevens — information
  • Dutch: informatie — information
  • Dutch: data — information
  • Esperanto: datumo — information
  • Esperanto: informo — information
  • Esperanto: dateno — information
  • Estonian: andmed — information
  • Faroese: dáta — information
  • Finnish: tieto — information
  • Finnish: data — information
  • French: données — information
  • Galician: datos — information
  • Georgian: მონაცემები (monacemebi) — information
  • Georgian: ცნობები (cnobebi) — information
  • Georgian: ფაქტები (pakṭebi) — information
  • Georgian: ინფორმაცია (inpormacia) — information
  • German: Daten — information
  • German: Informationseinheiten — information
  • Greek: δεδομένα (dedoména) — information
  • Hebrew: נְתוּנִים (n'tuním) — information
  • Hindi: डेटा (ḍeṭā) — information
  • Hindi: डाटा (ḍāṭā) — information
  • Hindi: आँकड़ा (ā̃kṛā) — information
  • Hungarian: adat — information
  • Icelandic: gögn — information
  • Ido: datumi — information
  • Ido: donaji — information
  • Ido: donataji — information
  • Indonesian: data — information
  • Indonesian: informasi — information
  • Irish: sonraí — information
  • Italian: dato — information
  • Italian: dati — information
  • Japanese: 資料 (shiryō) — information
  • Japanese: 統計 (tōkei) — information
  • Japanese: 情報 (jōhō) — information
  • Japanese: データ (dēta) — information
  • Kazakh: деректер (derekter) — information
  • Kazakh: мәліметтер (mälımetter) — information
  • Kazakh: мағлұмат (mağlūmat) — information
  • Khmer: ទិន្នន័យ (tɨnnĕəʼnɨy) — information
  • Korean: 자료 (jaryo) — information
  • Korean: 데이터 (deiteo) — information
  • Korean: 정보 (jeongbo) — information
  • Central Kurdish: زانیاری (zanyarî) — information
  • Central Kurdish: داتا (data) — information
  • Northern Kurdish: dane — information
  • Northern Kurdish: agahî — information
  • Kyrgyz: маалыматтар (maalımattar) — information
  • Kyrgyz: берилиштер (berilişter) — information
  • Lao: ຂໍ້ມູນ (khǭ mūn) — information
  • Latvian: dati — information
  • Lithuanian: duomenys — information
  • Macedonian: податоци (podatoci) — information
  • Malay: data — information
  • Malayalam: ദത്തം (dattaṁ) — information
  • Māori: hōtuku — information
  • Māori: raraunga — information
  • Mongolian: мэдээ (medee) — information
  • Mongolian: ᠮᠡᠳᠡᠭᠡ (medege) — information
  • Norwegian Bokmål: data — information
  • Odia: ତଥ୍ୟ (tathya) — information
  • Pashto: معلومات (ma'lumãt) — information
  • Iranian Persian: دادِهها (dâde-hâ) — information
  • Iranian Persian: اِطِّلاعات (ettelâ'ât) — information
  • Iranian Persian: مَعْلومات (ma'lumât) — information
  • Polish: dane — information
  • Portuguese: dados — information
  • Romanian: date — information
  • Russian: да́нные (dánnyje) — information
  • Russian: информа́ция (informácija) — information
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàta — information
  • Serbo-Croatian: податци — information
  • Serbo-Croatian: подаци — information
  • Serbo-Croatian: podatci — information
  • Serbo-Croatian: podaci — information
  • Sindhi: اعداد (āʻdād) — information
  • Sinhala: දත්ත (datta) — information
  • Slovak: dáta — information
  • Slovak: údaje — information
  • Slovene: podatek — information
  • Spanish: datos — information
  • Sundanese: data — information
  • Swedish: data — information
  • Tagalog: datos — information
  • Tajik: додаҳо (dodaho) — information
  • Tajik: маълумот (ma'lumot) — information
  • Tajik: иттилоот (ittiloot) — information
  • Tamil: தரவுகள் (taravukaḷ) — information
  • Tatar: бирелмәләр (birelmälär) — information
  • Tatar: мәгълүмат (mäğlümat) — information
  • Tatar: мәгълүматлар (mäğlümatlar) — information
  • Thai: ข้อมูล (kɔ̂ɔ-muun) — information
  • Tibetan: དཔྱད་གཞི (dpyad gzhi) — information
  • Turkish: veri — information
  • Turkish: malumat — information
  • Turkish: bilgi — information
  • Turkish: data — information
  • Turkmen: maglumat — information
  • Udmurt: тодэт (todet) — information
  • Ukrainian: да́ні (dáni) — information
  • Urdu: ڈیٹا (ḍeṭā) — information
  • Urdu: مَعْلُومات (ma'lūmāt) — information
  • Urdu: مُعْطِیات (mu'tiyāt) — information
  • Urdu: اِطِّلاعات (ittilā'āt) — information
  • Uyghur: مەلۇمات (melumat) — information
  • Uyghur: مەلۇماتلار (melumatlar) — information
  • Uzbek: maʻlumotlar — information
  • Vietnamese: dữ liệu — information
  • Vietnamese: đa ta — information
  • Volapük: nünods — information
  • Yiddish: דאַטן (datn) — information