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din

/dɪn/

din noun: a loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion. Also the alternative spelling of deen.

Noun

din (countable and uncountable, plural dins)

  1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
    • din and bustle
    • Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb

din (third-person singular simple present dins, present participle dinning, simple past and past participle dinned)

  1. (intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
    • 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!1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21
    • My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.1920, Zane Grey, “The Rube’s Pennant”, in The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 68
  2. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
    • The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]1914, Rex Beach, chapter 3, in The Auction Block, New York: Harper & Bros., page 33
  3. (transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
    • 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.1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46
    • Oh ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude,
      Or fed too much with cloying melody,—
      Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood
      Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!1817, John Keats, “On the Sea”, in Richard Monckton Milnes, editor, Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 291
  4. (transitive) To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
    • This has been often dinned in my Ears.1724, The Hibernian Patriot: Being a Collection of the Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland concerning Mr. Wood’s Brass Half-Pence, London: Jonathan Swift, published 1730, Letter 2, p. 61
    • “Mamma, do you forget that I have promised to marry Roger Hamley?” said Cynthia quietly.
      “No! of course I don’t—how can I, with Molly always dinning the word ‘engagement’ into my ears? […]”1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 50, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published...
    Synonyms:
    drum

Proper noun (1) capitalized: DIN

DIN

  1. The German Institute for Standardization.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Din

Din (plural Dins)

  1. A surname from Khmer.

Also used as

din is also the alternative spelling of deen.

din meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi

din in Tamil

தின்

din in Telugu

loud noise
గోల gōla, గొడవ goḍava

din in Malayalam

ദിൻ, ദീൻ

din in Punjabi

ਦੀਨ

Examples of din in a sentence

  • [B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co....
  • Invigorated by this jolt of misanthropy, he moved sleekly through the din, ignored his name when it was called, withdrew his elbow when it was plucked [...]1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, New York: Anchor, published 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10:
  • England certainly made a mockery of the claim that they might somehow be intimidated by the Glasgow din.2014 November 18, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian:
  • The question dinned in her brain so loudly that she could hardly hear what her companion was saying […]1924, Edith Wharton, chapter 4, in Old New York: New Year’s Day (The ’Seventies), New York: D. Appleton & Co., pages 62–63:

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Synonyms of din

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Antonyms

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Forms of din

Noun
pluraldins
Verb
third-person singular presentdins
present participledinning
past participledinned
pastdinned
Proper noun
pluralDins

Plural of din: dins

Origin of din

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.

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

Borrowed from German DIN.

Words formed from din

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Words that rhyme with din

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Questions about din

What does din mean?
Din means a loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
What is din in Tamil?
Din in Tamil is தின். See Din meaning in Tamil.
How do you use din in a sentence?
[B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.
What part of speech is din?
Din can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce din?
Din is pronounced /dɪn/.
What is the plural of din?
The plural of din is dins.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: din (page history and authors); DIN (page history and authors); Din (page history and authors); din (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); din (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); din (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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