din
A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
Noun Islam, lifestyle
- Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).
Synonyms
ballyhoo blast bobbery bombilation charivari clangour clash clatter crash din durdum hubbub hurly noise outcry racket ruckus uproar vociferance vociferation
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Related
Noun Entry 2
- A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
- 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: […]...
- [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....
- How often, hither wandering down, My Arthur found your shadows fair, And shook to all the liberal air The dust and din and steam of town: - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward...
Origin
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.
Forms
Synonyms
ballyhoo blast bobbery bombilation charivari clangour clash clatter crash din durdum hubbub hurly noise outcry racket ruckus uproar vociferance vociferation
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Related
Derived
Verb
- To make a din, to resound.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21, For, spite of rumbling of the wheels, A welcome greeting...
- 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 &...
- Should she speak of having been at the fire herself—or should she not? 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...
- 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:
- To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
- 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46, She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds...
- 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...
- No alarm-clock dinned her to get up but the morning light woke her, pouring through the uncurtained glass. - 1938, Graham Greene, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, New York: Vintage, published 2002:
- 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,...
- “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,...
- By careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies and the Youth League, by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural...
Origin
From Middle English dynnen, from Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).