din
noun/dɪn/
/dɪn/
[singular]- a loud, unpleasant noise that lasts for a long time synonym racket
- The children were making an awful din.
- We couldn’t hear ourselves speak above the din.
- She could not be heard above the din of the crowd.
- Who’s making that awful din?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- deafening
- raucous
- …
- create
- make
- hear
- …
- above the din
- over the din
- din of
- …
- the din of battle
Word OriginOld English dyne, dynn (noun), dynian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tuni (noun) and Old Norse dynr (noun), dynja ‘come rumbling down’.Definitions on the go
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