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What (who) is dun - definition
GENERIC TERM FOR AN ANCIENT OR MEDIEVAL FORT
Dún; Dūno-; Duno-
![[[Dunamase]], central Ireland (from Irish ''Dún Másc'', "Másc's fort")](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Castle of Dunamase im Abendlicht 02.jpg?width=200 "[[Dunamase]], central Ireland (from Irish ''Dún Másc'', \"Másc's fort\")")
![Walls of [[Dún Aonghasa]], a dun on [[Inishmore]], Ireland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dún Aonghusa 19 Aibreán 2009.JPG?width=200 "Walls of [[Dún Aonghasa]], a dun on [[Inishmore]], Ireland")
dun
dun1
¦ adjective of a dull greyish-brown colour.
¦ noun
1. a dull greyish-brown colour.
2. a horse with a sandy coat, black mane, tail, and lower legs, and a dark dorsal stripe.
3. a subadult mayfly with drab, opaque wings, or a fishing fly imitating this.
Origin
OE dun, dunn, of Gmc origin; prob. related to dusk.
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dun2
¦ verb (duns, dunning, dunned) make persistent demands on (someone) for payment of a debt.
¦ noun archaic a debt collector or an insistent creditor.
Origin
C17 (asnoun): perh. from obs. Dunkirk privateer (with connotations of piratical demands), or from the name of a Joe Dun, a well-known bailiff.
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dun3
¦ noun Archaeology (often in place names) a stone-built fortified settlement in Scotland or Ireland, of a kind built from the late Iron Age to the early Middle Ages.
Origin
C18: from Ir. dun, Sc. Gaelic dun 'hill or hill fort'.
dun
Something that is dun is a dull grey-brown colour.
...her dun mare.
COLOUR
dun
v. (D; tr.) to dun for (to dun smb. for payment)
Wikipedia
Dun
A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. In Ireland and Britain it is mainly a kind of hillfort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse.
Examples of use of dun
1. Market Evaluation Tools such as Dun & Bradstreet to be used.
2. The bus was traveling from Dehra Dun to Uttar Kashi.
3. Bank Hapoalim came out first in Dun & Bradstreet‘s rankings of leading Israeli companies in 2006.
4. A light wind is blowing through the dun-coloured landscape and the temperature is around 30C.
5. Speaking at a Dun & Bradstreet conference yesterday, Hurvitz blasted officialdom for ineptness.