Din

//dɪn// name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. countable, uncountable

    "Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?"

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”). alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  3. 3
    the act of making a noisy disturbance wordnet
  4. 4
    a loud harsh or strident noise wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a din, to resound. intransitive

    "1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21, For, spite of rumbling of the wheels, A welcome greeting he can hear;— It is a fiddle in its glee Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!"

  2. 2
    instill (into a person) by constant repetition wordnet
  3. 3
    (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. intransitive

    "The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]"

  4. 4
    make a resonant sound, like artillery wordnet
  5. 5
    To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise. transitive

    "1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46, She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning him in the Ears all Night long."

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  1. 6
    To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone). transitive

    "This has been often dinned in my Ears."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The German Institute for Standardization.
  2. 2
    A surname from Khmer.

Synonyms

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boomcommotiondrumruckusawake the deadbabel

Example

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"His voice was heard above the din."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German DIN.

Etymology 2

From Middle English dyne, dynne, from Old English dyne, from Proto-West Germanic *duni, from Proto-Germanic *duniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”). Cognate with English tone, Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja, Swedish dån, dön.

Etymology 3

From Middle English dynnen, from Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).

Etymology 4

From Khmer ឌិន (dɨn).

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