Definitions for Dun

• Definition
• Anagrams (13)

Dun dun

Spelling: [duhn]

IPA: /dʌn/

Dun is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Dun (dnu).

Definitions for Dun

noun

1. a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
2. a demand for payment, especially a written one.
3. a dun color.
4. a dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail.
5. mayfly.
6. Angling. dun fly.

adjective

1. dull, grayish brown.
2. dark; gloomy.

verb (used with object)

1. to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.

Origin of Dun

First recorded in 1620-30; origin obscure

Examples for Dun

You seem to forget that the brand on this dun is pretty well known.

The three distinguished characters were a spendthrift, a bailiff, and a dun.

And the insurance fund run by the FDIC is replenishing itself without having to dun taxpayers.

The challenge was set by HSBC, sponsors of the Open Championship, and filmed at dun Laoghaire Golf Club in Dublin.

I made sure he was going to dun, and that I should have to shuffle.

Cognizant, headquartered in New Jersey, grew out of a partnership between dun & Bradstreet and an Indian firm.

Flame-colour is a mixture of auburn and dun; dun of white and black; yellow of white and auburn.

I dun'no' whether he is married or not, but there is a woman livin' there.

"Da-da-dat is, er—I spec' so—er—I dun'no', ma'm," he stammered.

The object was dun colored, the color of storm clouds on a cold winter's day.