Meaning

8 senses
  1. (informal)Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.

  2. (colloquial)A rejection.

    I just got my first ding letter.

  3. The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.

    дзыньdzynʹ

    дзеньdzenʹ, дзенькdzenʹk, дзіньdzinʹ

    a ringing sound

  4. (colloquial, especially)The act of levelling up.

  5. An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.

  6. (Hong Kong)An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.

  7. (Australia, Western, ethnic, offensive, slur)An Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian

  8. (uncountable)In American Chinese cuisine, cubed or bite-sized meat.

    shrimp ding

    chicken ding

Examples

32 sentences
  1. It's because you're so dang hot.

  2. Tobias was playing ding-dong ditch.

  3. Have you ever played ding-dong ditch?

  4. Ziri couldn't see a dang thing out there.

  5. Jonas plays ding-dong ditch with his friends.

Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
high-pitched sound of a bell:
Русский
By meaning 1
high-pitched sound of a bell:

Origin

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), fr

From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).

From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).

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Forms

plural: dings / ding
Singularding
Pluraldings / ding

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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