Din

Quick meaning: Din is a noun meaning A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

Meaning

A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
2. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
3. (transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
4. (Islam) Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).
5. (transitive) To repeat (something) continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody, or (sometimes particularly) to impress or instill (it, into someone).

Example Sentences

Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?

[B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.

My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.

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:

Word Forms

• dins
• dinning
• dinned

Synonyms for din

Depending on context, synonyms include ballyhoo, blast, bobbery, bombilation, charivari, clangour.

Antonyms for din

Common opposites include lull, murmur, peace, silence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blare, clamor, ruckus, tumult, commotion, rumpus.

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