dun
IPA: dˈʌn
noun
- A brownish grey colour.
- (countable) A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
- An urgent request or demand of payment.
- (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
- (countable, fishing) A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
- An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
- (archaeology) A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
- A mound or small hill.
- A river in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which flows into the River Kennet.
- A river in Wiltshire and Hampshire, England, which flows into the River Test.
- An alternative name for the River Don in Yorkshire, England.
- A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, alternatively named the Glendun River.
- A settlement and parish in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO6659).
- a state legislative assembly
- a state legislative assembly seat
- Alternative form of dhoon (“Himalayan valley”) [(India, chiefly in the plural) Any of the flat valleys lying parallel to the base of the Himalayas, and between the rise of that mountain mass and the low tertiary ranges known as the sub-Himalayan or Sivalik Hills, or rather between the interior and exterior of these ranges.]
verb
- (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
- (transitive) To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
- (transitive, dated) To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.
- (nonstandard, informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: past participle of do [(African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Cockney, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.]
- (nonstandard, informal) Pronunciation spelling of don't: contraction of do + not. [do not (negative auxiliary)]
adjective
- Of a brownish grey colour.
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Examples of "dun" in Sentences
- The color of the eye makeup was dun.
- The Red Lion is now called the Dun Cow.
- The only pub currently operating is the Dun Cow.
- The funeral was the largest seen in Dun Laoghaire.
- Meanwhile, the attacking army has reached the dun.
- Dun Laoghaire is the major port on the south coast.
- Hungerford is on the River Dun in the Kennet Valley at.
- Constable Dun gave me the entire photographic record of the accident.
- The valley of the Dun is followed by the Southampton to Salisbury railway.
- The Sack of Dun Gallimhe was fought in 1247 between the Normans and the Irish.