Definitions for IA

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

-ia

an ending of nouns borrowed from Greek and Latin, or coined in English or other languages on a Latin model, that denote esp. places (Ethiopia; Georgia; Liberia), states or conditions, esp. physical disorders (inertia; insomnia; leukemia; phobia), or plants (fuchsia; zinnia); also occurring in other nouns, often orig. or still plural (bacteria; genitalia; insignia; media) or collective (academia; militia). The ending -ia has limite
hypoxia
militaria; psychedelia; suburbia
Category: Affix
Ref: Compare -y2 7 2 .

Origin of -ia:

< NL, L, Gk

or Ia.

Iowa.
Category: Geography (places)

i.a.

in absentia.

Princeton's WordNet

Iowa, Hawkeye State, IA(noun)
a state in midwestern United States

Translations for IA

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

it(pronoun)

(used as the subject of a verb or object of a verb or preposition) the thing spoken of, used especially of lifeless things and of situations, but also of animals and babies

If you find my pencil, please give it to me; The dog is in the garden, isn't it?; I picked up the baby because it was crying; He decided to run a mile every morning but he couldn't keep it up.