dune
pronunciation
How to pronounce dune in British English:
UK [djuːn]
How to pronounce dune in American English:
US [duːn]
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- Noun:
- a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans
Word Origin
- dune
- dune: see down
- dune (n.)
- 1790, from French, Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dune, all perhaps from Gaulish *dunom (thus related to down (n.2)). The French dune "sand hill" (13c.) is held by Diez to be an Old French borrowing from Dutch duin or some other Germanic source. Italian and Spanish duna are from French. Dune buggy attested by 1965.
Example
- 1. The information may be useful for a proposed dune restoration project .
- 2. A tourist sliding down star dune in the mesquite flat dune field
- 3. Now it is a tourist playground . Led by train staff , we climb a massive dune .
- 4. In his novel " dune " , frank herbert imagined a planet covered largely by sand dunes .
- 5. This is where we stop for breakfast and the dune sprinter appears .