A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Used in a Sentence
adele
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for adele.
Editorial note
For anyone unfamiliar, that's Adele Hartley, not Adele the singer.
Examples18
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of adele gathered in one view.
A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
(mathematics) An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for adele.
noun
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
noun
A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
noun
(mathematics) An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.
Example sentences
For anyone unfamiliar, that's Adele Hartley, not Adele the singer.
That Adele album was brilliantly written, you should go listen to it in its entirety if you haven't already.
Losing adele and taylor swift starts to give the product a black eye at some stage.
Late in 1977, Adele was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare Gödel's food.
Popular artists like Adele and Coldplay have notably kept their music off streaming services, and still sold enormous amounts of recordings.
To be fair, look at what people like Adele and the british independent labels were saying last week before she chimed in.
It was first demonstrated as a stored-program computer on September 16, 1948, running a program by Adele Goldstine for John von Neumann.
If it were, experienced performers with extensive stage experience like Barbra Streisand and Adele wouldn't still be suffering from severe performance anxiety.
Spotify for music also works like that for some artists; Adele has her old songs available in the subscription but her brand new song might only be available from iTunes for $1.29.
I don't think Zane Lowe's discovery list - which includes a short list of middle-of-the-roaders like Adele and Ed Sheeran - is in quite the same league as John Peel's.
(edit: They already pulled adele from the contract talks from what I gather, presumably because XL is indeed one of those small labels that breaks original talent, but doesn't have the superstar/financial status of the majors to just eat a full quarter of earnings/working capital.
Quote examples
IDEs become indispensable primarily in giant, overly-OO tarballs where (in the words of Adele Goldberg) "everything happens somewhere else".
The top selling album of 2012 was Adele's "21" and she's an independent.
I read recently (in another article here on HN) a quote from Adele Goldberg that in OO, "everything happens somewhere else".
His death certificate reported that he died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance" in Princeton Hospital on January 14, 1978.[20] Adele's death followed in 1981.
Proper noun examples
He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him.
There are several artists there -- Adele, The Offspring, Johnny Cash -- that I quite enjoy.
By some accounts (especially if you are old or like Steely Dan) they do music better than Justin[1], Britney[2], and Adele[3] (but they are young).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use adele in a sentence?
For anyone unfamiliar, that's Adele Hartley, not Adele the singer.
What does adele mean?
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
What part of speech is adele?
adele is commonly used as noun.