Definition of "din" in Anglais

noun

1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

verb

1. (intransitive) 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 he can hear;— It is a fiddle in its glee Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!

2. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.

3. (transitive) 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 him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning him in the Ears all Night long.

4. (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).

noun

1. (Islam) Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).