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aha

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɑːhɑː//
  • United States/[ɑˈhɑ]/
  • United States/[əˈhɑ]/

An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

interjection

  1. 1

    An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

    Aha! That will work.

  2. 2

    An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt.

    Aha! Now I've got you!

Etymology

From Middle English a ha, aha, natural expression. Equivalent to ah + ha!.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).