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din

noun [S]
 
 
/dɪn/

Definition

a loud, unpleasant confused noise that lasts for a long time: the din of the traffic I had to shout to make myself heard above the din. The children were making a terrible din.Noise and noisy
(Definition of din noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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