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- DictionaryDun/dən/
adjective
- 1. of a dull grayish-brown color: "a dun cow"
noun
- 1. a dull grayish-brown color.
- 2. a horse with a sandy or sandy-gray coat, black mane, tail, and lower legs, and a dark dorsal stripe.
The meaning of DUN is having a slightly brownish dark gray color : having the color dun. How to use dun in a sentence.
Dun definition: to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.. See examples of DUN used in a sentence.
to demand money from someone: He claimed he would rather go to prison than continue being dunned by the taxman. dun someone for something One of his jobs was dunning customers for money they owed. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
to demand money from someone: He claimed he would rather go to prison than continue being dunned by the taxman. dun someone for something One of his jobs was dunning customers for money they owed. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
noun. 1. a brownish-grey colour. 2. a horse of this colour. 3. angling. a. an immature adult mayfly (the subimago ), esp one of the genus Ephemera. b. an artificial fly imitating this or a similar fly.
noun. a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color. “she wore dun ”. synonyms: fawn, grayish brown, greyish brown. see more. see less. type of: light brown. a brown that is light but unsaturated.
dun. ( dʌn) vb, duns, dunning or dunned. (Banking & Finance) ( tr) to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt. n. 1. (Professions) a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt. 2. (Banking & Finance) a demand for payment, esp one in writing.
dun adjective. Meaning & use. 1.a. Old English–. Of a dull or dingy brown colour; spec. of a dull greyish-brown colour, typical of the coats of donkeys, mice, and numerous other animals.
Origin of Dun. From Middle English dun, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-Germanic *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhūw- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024 How to use dun in a sentence In discussing Duns Scotus, I have given less from his writings than has been my wont with other philosophers.
