din
Plural: dins
Noun
- a loud harsh or strident noise
- the act of making a noisy disturbance
- A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
- Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).
Verb
Verb Forms: dinned, dinning, dins
- To make a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise.
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
- instill (into a person) by constant repetition
- "he dinned the lessons into his students"
- To make a din, to resound.
- (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
- To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
- To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).
Examples
- The crowd began to DIN as the Scrabble tournament grand final approached its climax.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
blare, blaring, boom, cacophony, clamor, commotion, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult, ballyhoo, blast, bobbery, bombilation, charivari, clangour, clash, clatter, crash, din, drum, durdum, hubbub, hurly, noise, outcry, racket, uproar, vociferance, vociferation
Scrabble Score: 4
din: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
din: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary