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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dun1 /dʌn/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], dunned, dun•ning. - Businessto make repeated demands upon, esp. for the payment of a debt:kept dunning us about the overdue bill.
dun2 /dʌn/USA pronunciation adj. - Dog and Cat Breedsdull grayish brown or grayish yellow.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dun1 (dun),USA pronunciation v., dunned, dun•ning, n. v.t. - Businessto make repeated and insistent demands upon, esp. for the payment of a debt.
n. - a person, esp. a creditor, who duns another.
- Businessa demand for payment, esp. a written one.
- origin, originally obscure 1620–30
- Dog and Cat Breedsdull, grayish brown.
- dark;
gloomy.
n. - a dun color.
- Dog and Cat Breedsa dun-colored horse with a black mane and tail.
- mayfly.
- Sport[Angling.]See dun fly.
- bef. 1000; Middle English dun(ne), Old English dunn; cognate with Old Saxon dun
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: dun /dʌn/ vb (duns, dunning, dunned)- (transitive) to press or importune (a debtor) for the payment of a debt
n - a person, esp a hired agent, who importunes another for the payment of a debt
- a demand for payment, esp one in writing
Etymology: 17th Century: of unknown origin dun /dʌn/ n - a brownish-grey colour
- a horse of this colour
- an immature adult mayfly (the subimago), esp one of the genus Ephemera
- an artificial fly imitating this or a similar fly
adj (dunner, dunnest)- of a dun colour
- dark and gloomy
Etymology: Old English dunn; related to Old Norse dunna wild duck, Middle Irish doun dark; see dusk |