Din

Pronunciation

• enPR: dÄ­n, IPA: /dɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

From Old English dyne, from Proto-Germanic *duniz. Akin to Old Norse dynr, Sanskrit ध्वनति ("to make a noise, to roar").

Full definition of din

Noun

1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
• So many faces Clive had not seen by daylight, and looking terrible, like cadavers jerked upright to welcome the newly dead. Invigorated by this jolt of misanthropy, he moved sleekly through the din'' - Amsterdam by Ian McEwen
• 1907, w, The Dust of Conflict Chapter 7, The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
• ShakespeareThink you a little din can daunt mine ears?
• Sir Walter ScottHe knew the battle's din afar.
• Tennysonthe dust and din and steam of town

From Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjÄ…, from the same stem as Etymology 1, above.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To be filled with sound; to resound.
2. (transitive) To assail with loud noise.
3. (transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
• Jonathan SwiftThis hath been often dinned in my ears.
4. 2003, His mother had dinned The Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 183)
5. (intransitive) To make a din.

Anagrams

• D'ni, ind., Ind., in d., IND, nid