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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADO', n.
Bustle; trouble; labor; difficulty; as, to make a great ado about trifles; to persuade one with much ado.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from at do, from at + don, do to do Date: 14th century 1. heightened fuss or concern ; to-do 2. time-wasting bother over trivial details <wrote the paper without further ado> 3. trouble, difficulty

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. ados) fuss, busy activity; trouble, difficulty. Phrases and idioms: without more ado immediately. Etymology: orig. in much ado = much to do, f. north. ME at do (= to do) f. ON at AT as sign of infin. + DO(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ado A*do" ([.a]*d[=oo]"), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do, northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.] 1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. ``What is here ado?'' --J. Newton. 2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles. With much ado, he partly kept awake. --Dryden. Let's follow to see the end of this ado. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you do something without further ado or without more ado, you do it at once and do not discuss or delay it any longer. (OLD-FASHIONED) 'And now, without further ado, let me introduce our benefactor.' PHRASE: PHR with v

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a-doo': Found only in Mr 5:39 King James Version: "Why make ye this ado and weep?" Here "make ado" is used to translate the Greek verb thorubeomai (compare Mt 9:23 the King James Version, where it is likewise rendered "making a noise"). "Ado" as a substantive is Old English for "trouble" or "fuss," used only in the sing.; and in the early English versions it combined well with the verb "make," as here, to translate the Greek word rendered elsewhere "causing an uproar," or "tumult," "making a noise," etc. (see Ac 17:5; 20:10). Compare Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, III, 4, "We'll keep no great ado;--a friend or two."

George B. Eager

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Trouble, difficulty, travail, toil, labor, pains. 2. Bustle, stir, flurry, fuss, hubbub, noise, tumult, turmoil, pother, bother, botherment, botheration (colloq.), confusion, commotion, excitement, to-do (colloq.).

Moby Thesaurus

agitation, annoyance, anxiety, besetment, bother, botheration, brawl, broil, brouhaha, burst, bustle, can of worms, commotion, confusion, disadvantage, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, effort, embroilment, evil, exertion, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, fume, furore, fuss, fussiness, great ado, hassle, headache, helter-skelter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, inconvenience, maelstrom, matter, melee, pains, peck of troubles, pell-mell, perturbation, pother, problem, racket, rampage, restlessness, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, sea of troubles, shindy, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat, swirl, swirling, to-do, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unquiet, uproar, vortex, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, worry, yeastiness