Definitions for dingbat
ˈdɪŋˌbætding·bat

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dingbatnoun

   a silly empty-headed person

   "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister"

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1. dingbatnoun

   A silly or stupid person.

2. dingbatnoun

   A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.

3. dingbatnoun

   An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.

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1. Dingbat

   In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider). Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections.In the computer industry, a dingbat font was a computer font that has symbols and shapes that reused the code points designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century operating systems. Most modern fonts are based on Unicode, which has unique code points for dingbat glyphs.

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1. dingbat

   A dingbat is a term that can refer to multiple things: 1) Colloquially, in American slang, it is used to describe a foolish or eccentric person. 2) In typography, it refers to a small decorative symbol or ornament that is used in typesetting; often employed to create box corners, row dividers, or as a placeholder character. 3) In computer programming, it refers to undefined or uninitialized variables. 4) In American architecture, it refers to an ornament generally found on dingbat style buildings, popular in the mid-century residential structures across Southern California. The interpretation largely depends on the context in which the term "dingbat" is used.

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1. Dingbat

   A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character. The term continues to be used in the computer industry to describe fonts that have symbols and shapes in the positions designated for alphabetical or numeric characters. Examples of characters included in Unicode: The advent of Unicode and the universal character set it provides allowed commonly used dingbats to be given their own character codes, from 2700 to 27BF. Although fonts claiming Unicode coverage will contain glyphs for dingbats in addition to alphabetic characters, fonts that have dingbats in place of alphabetic characters continue to be popular, primarily for ease of input. Such fonts are also sometimes known as pi fonts. Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks, used in bookbinding to order sections.

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How to pronounce dingbat?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say dingbat in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dingbat in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dingbat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dingbat
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dingbat
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dingbat