Dun

//dʌn//

Synonyms for "dun" (140 found)

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Translations

71 translations across 27 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • сиво-кафяв adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • сиво-кафяв noun (colour)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 暗褐色的 adj (of a brownish grey colour)

Czech

4 entries
  • plavý adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • šedohnědý adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • vymahač noun (a collector of debts)
  • šedohnědá barva noun (colour)

Dutch

4 entries
  • grijsbruin adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • grijs-bruin noun (colour)
  • vaalbruin noun (colour)
  • afpersen verb (to ask for payment)

Finnish

4 entries
  • harmaanruskea adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • esiaikuinen noun (immature mayfly)
  • harmaanruskea noun (colour)
  • perijä noun (a collector of debts)

French

2 entries
  • brun gris adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • brun grisâtre noun (colour)

Georgian

2 entries
  • მონაცრისფრო-ყვითელი adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • მონაცრისფრო-ყვითელი ფერი noun (colour)

German

3 entries
  • falb adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • graubraun adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • Graubraun noun (colour)

Greek

1 entries
  • καστανόφαιο noun (colour)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • fakó adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • ordas adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • ordas noun (colour)
  • szürkésbarna noun (colour)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • grámórautt noun (colour)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • turangga adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • turangga noun (colour)

Irish

2 entries
  • riabhach adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • donn noun (colour)

Italian

4 entries
  • grigio brunastro adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • bigio noun (colour)
  • grigiastro noun (colour)
  • grigio noun (colour)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 焦げ茶色 noun (colour)
  • 借金の催促 verb (to ask for payment)

Norwegian

2 entries
  • gråbrun adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • gråbrunt noun (colour)

Occitan

1 entries
  • brunèl noun (colour)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • قولا adj (of a brownish grey colour)

Persian

1 entries
  • دیزه noun (colour)

Polish

4 entries
  • bułany adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • płowy adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • przymawiać się verb (to harass by continually repeating a request)
  • przymówić się verb (to harass by continually repeating a request)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • pardo adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • pardo noun (colour)
  • cobrar verb (to ask for payment)

Russian

2 entries
  • серова́то-кори́чневый adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • серова́то-кори́чневый noun (colour)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • odhar adj (of a brownish grey colour)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • sivosmeđ noun (colour)

Spanish

2 entries
  • pardo adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • pardo noun (colour)

Swedish

3 entries
  • gråbrun adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • gråbrun noun (colour)
  • gråbrunt noun (colour)

Turkish

2 entries
  • boz adj (of a brownish grey colour)
  • kula noun (colour)

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

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“Saved your life! I have heard of that story,” said the lady. “The Lord Keeper was scared by a dun cow, and he takes the young fellow who killed her for Guy of Warwick: any butcher from Haddington may soon have an equal claim on your hospitality.”

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Come, thick Night, And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, To cry, hold, hold.

Source: wiktionary

My Miſtres eyes are nothing like the Sunne, Currall is farre more red, then her lips red, If ſnow be white, why then her breſts are dun: If hairs be wiers, black wiers grow on her head: [...]

Source: wiktionary

Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.