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Definitions for Dun

[1] to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
[2] a person, especially a creditor, who duns another.
[3] a demand for payment, especially a written one.
[4] dull, grayish brown.
[5] dark; gloomy.
[6] a dun color.
[7] a dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail.
[8] mayfly.
[9] Angling . dun fly.
[10] (tr) to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt
[11] a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt
[12] a demand for payment, esp one in writing
[13] a brownish-grey colour
[14] a horse of this colour
[15] angling an immature adult mayfly (the subimago), esp one of the genus Ephemera an artificial fly imitating this or a similar fly
[16] of a dun colour
[17] dark and gloomy

Words related to Dun

dim, stormy, misty, muddy, dreary, cloudy, nebulous, dark, dismal, dirty, foggy, fuzzy, murky, shadowy, overcast, somber, dingy, gloomy, black, drab

Words nearby Dun

dumpy, dumpy level, dumuzi, dumyat, dumézil, dun, dun fly, dun laoghaire, duna, dunaj, dunant

Origin of Dun

2before 1000; Middle English dun(ne ), Old English dunn; cognate with Old Saxon dun

Other words from Dun

dun·ness , noun

Word origin for Dun

Old English dunn; related to Old Norse dunna wild duck, Middle Irish doun dark; see dusk

Synonyms for Dun

cloudy, dark, dim, dirty, dismal, dreary, foggy, fuzzy, misty, muddy, nebulous, stormy, black, caliginous, cheerless, darkened, dingy, drab, dull, dusk, dusky, filthy, foul, glowering, gray, grubby, impenetrable, lowering, mucky, nasty, nubilous, overcast, roily, sad, smoky, somber, squalid, tenebrous, turbid, unclean