din

Pronunciation: /dɪn/

The English word “din” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

verb

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).

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.

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