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# ado

«ado» in Mova's school dictionary: **Fuss, bustle or trouble** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ado; no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) Fuss, bustle or trouble. «Without ado» means at once, without delay or fuss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ado/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a hero acts «without ado», quickly and calmly, and does not stop to argue.

### examples

- Don't make much ado about nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ado/#x1)
- Without more ado, he turned himself into a pike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ado/#x2)
- Without ado, he took Jack on his shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ado/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ado» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ado/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.