din
pronunciation
How to pronounce din in British English:
UK [dɪn]
How to pronounce din in American English:
US [dɪn]
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- Noun:
- a loud harsh or strident noise
- the act of making a noisy disturbance
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- Verb:
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
- instill (into a person) by constant repetition
Word Origin
- din
- din: [OE] Din is an ancient word, traceable back via Old English dyne and Germanic *dunjaz to an Indo-European base *dhun-, signifying ‘loud noise’. This is also represented in Sanskrit dhúnis ‘roaring’ and Lithuanian dundéti ‘sound’.
- din (n.)
- Old English dyne (n.), dynian (v.), from Proto-Germanic *duniz (cognates: Old Norse dynr, Danish don, Middle Low German don "noise"), from PIE root *dwen- "to make noise" (cognates: Sanskrit dhuni "roaring, a torrent").
Example
- 1. They make a constant din and cause acute pollution .
- 2. Movellan shouted over the din of cyclone-strength air conditioners .
- 3. The din of helicopters and private jets is omnipresent .
- 4. Murakami grew up , mostly , in the suburbs surrounding kobe , an international port defined by the din of many languages .
- 5. Contemporary author-recluses , such as harper lee and anne tyler , wouldn 't stand a chance in today 's din .