Definitions for dundʌn

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

dundʌn(v.; n.)dunned, dun•ning

  1. (v.t.)to make repeated demands upon, esp. for the payment of a debt.

    Category: Business

  2. (n.)a person, esp. a creditor, who duns another.

  3. a demand for payment, esp. a written one.

    Category: Business

Origin of dun:

1620–30; orig. obscure

dundʌn(adj.)

  1. dull grayish brown or grayish yellow.

    Category: Dogs, Cats, and Horses, Common Vocabulary

  2. dark; gloomy.

  3. (n.)a dun color.

  4. a dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail.

    Category: Dogs, Cats, and Horses

  5. Category: Entomology

    Ref: mayfly .

Origin of dun:

bef. 1000; ME dun(ne), OE dunn

Princeton's WordNet

  1. dun(noun)

    horse of a dull brownish grey color

  2. dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn(adj)

    a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

    "she wore dun"

  3. dun(verb)

    of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color

    "the dun and dreary prairie"

  4. torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate(verb)

    treat cruelly

    "The children tormented the stuttering teacher"

  5. dun(verb)

    persistently ask for overdue payment

    "The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone"

  6. dun(verb)

    cure by salting

    "dun codfish"

  7. dun(verb)

    make a dun color

Wiktionary

  1. dun(Noun)

    A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

  2. dun(Noun)

    A newly hatched, immature mayfly

  3. dun(Verb)

    :

  4. Origin: From dun, dunne, from dunn, from dusnaz, from dhūw-. Cognate with dun, tusin.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dun(noun)

    a mound or small hill

  2. Dun(verb)

    to cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance

  3. Dun(u)

    to ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately

  4. Dun(noun)

    one who duns; a dunner

  5. Dun(noun)

    an urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun

  6. Dun(adj)

    of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy


Translations for dun

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

thin(adjective)

having a short distance between opposite sides

thin paper; The walls of these houses are too thin.

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