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tyne

/taɪn/UK/taɪn/

tyne noun: anxiety; teen. Also the alternative form of tine.

Noun

tyne

  1. (obsolete) anxiety; teen
    • with labour and long tyne1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15

Verb

tyne (third-person singular simple present tynes, present participle tyning, simple past and past participle tyned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To lose.
    • ‘Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.’1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become lost; to perish.

Proper noun capitalized: Tyne

Tyne

  1. A river in the counties of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, in north east England. The city of Newcastle upon Tyne is found upon its northern bank and Gateshead is found upon its southern bank.
  2. A coastal sea area that includes the mouth of this river
  3. A river in East Lothian council area, in southern Scotland.

Also used as

tyne is also the alternative form of tine.

tyne meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi

tyne in Hindi

टायन

tyne in Marathi

टाइनला, टायनला

tyne in Bengali

টাইনকে

tyne in Punjabi

ਟਾਇਨ
More languagesFewer languages
tyne in Gujarati
ટાયન
tyne in Nepali
टाइनलाई

Forms of tyne

Verb
third-person singular presenttynes
present participletyning
past participletyned
pasttyned
Noun
pluraltynes

Origin of tyne

See teen.

From Old English Tīna or Tīne, attested as a component of the place name Tinanmuþe (“Tynemouth”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *tīn (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow”). As such, possibly a doublet of Teign and Tenna. Also compare Latin Tina.

Words formed from tyne

Phrases with tyne

Words that rhyme with tyne

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Questions about tyne

What does tyne mean?
Tyne means anxiety; teen.
What is tyne in Hindi?
Tyne in Hindi is टायन. See Tyne meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tyne?
Tyne can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tyne?
Tyne is pronounced /taɪn/.
What is the plural of tyne?
The plural of tyne is tynes.

Words near tyne in the dictionary

  1. Tyndareus
  2. tyndarid
  3. tyndarids
  4. Tyndell
  5. Tyndrum
  6. tyne
  7. Tyne and Wear
  8. Tyne Dock
  9. Tyne Valley
  10. tyned
  11. Tynedale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tyne (page history and authors); Tyne (page history and authors); tyne (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tyne (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tyne (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tyne (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tyne (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tyne (Nepali, 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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