"dune" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /djuːn/ [UK], /dʒuːn/ [UK], /dun/ [Canada, US], /djun/ [Canada, US, sometimes], /dɪu̯n/ (note: Wales, Ottawa Valley) Audio: en-uk-dune.ogg Forms: dunes [plural]
Rhymes: -uːn Etymology: Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from French dune (from Old French dune), or from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, probably from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of down (which see). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰewh₂-}}, {{bor|en|fr|dune}} French dune, {{der|en|fro|dune}} Old French dune, {{bor|en|dum|dūne}} Middle Dutch dūne, {{cog|nl|duin}} Dutch duin, {{bor|en|gml|dûne}} Middle Low German dûne, {{der|en|gmw-pro|*dūnā|*dūn, *dūnā}} Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, {{der|en|cel-pro|*dūnom||stronghold, rampart}} Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dʰuHnom||enclosure}} Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), {{doublet|en|down}} Doublet of down Head templates: {{en-noun}} dune (plural dunes)
  1. (geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water. Categories (topical): Geomorphology Categories (place): Landforms Synonyms: sand dune, sand-dune Derived forms: dune buggy, dune coon, dune cricket, dunesand, duney, Pajaro Dunes, river dune Related terms: duned Translations (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind): dunë [feminine] (Albanian), كَثِيب (kaṯīb) [masculine] (Arabic), غُرْد (ḡurd) [masculine] (Arabic), դյուն (dyun) (Armenian), ավազաթումբ (avazatʻumb) (Armenian), barxan (Azerbaijani), dyun (Azerbaijani), duna (Basque), дзю́на (dzjúna) [feminine] (Belarusian), барха́н (barxán) [masculine] (Belarusian), дю́на (djúna) [feminine] (Bulgarian), duna [feminine] (Catalan), 沙丘 (saa¹ jau¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 沙丘 (shāqiū) (Chinese Mandarin), duna [feminine] (Czech), klit [common-gender] (Danish), duin [feminine] (Dutch), duno (Esperanto), luide (Estonian), düün (Estonian), tuiskliivahang (Estonian), sandheyggjur [masculine] (Faroese), sandfonn [feminine] (Faroese), dyyni (Finnish), dune [feminine] (French), duna [feminine] (Galician), დიუნა (diuna) (Georgian), Düne [feminine] (German), Sanddüne [feminine] (German), αμμόλοφος (ammólofos) [masculine] (Greek), θίνα (thína) [feminine] (Greek), ઢૂવો (ḍhūvo) [masculine] (Gujarati), टिब्बा (ṭibbā) (Hindi), बालुकूट (bālukūṭ) (Hindi), dűne (Hungarian), bucka (Hungarian), sandhóll [masculine] (Icelandic), duno (Ido), gumuk (Indonesian), dumhach [feminine] (Irish), duna [feminine] (Italian), 砂丘 (sakyū) (alt: さきゅう) (Japanese), барқан (barqan) (Kazakh), дөң (döñ) (Kazakh), құм төбе (qūm töbe) (Kazakh), ខ្សាច់នារ (khsac niə) (Khmer), ផ្នូក (phnouk) (Khmer), ផ្នូរខ្សាច់ (phnou khsac) (Khmer), (dun) (alt: ) (Korean), 둔덕 (dundeok) (Korean), 둔치 (dunchi) (Korean), 모래톱 (moraetop) (Korean), 사구 (sagu) (alt: 砂丘) (Korean), бархан (barhan) (Kyrgyz), ເນີນຊາຍ (nœ̄n sāi) (Lao), ແຊນຫາດ (sǣn hāt) (Lao), kāpa [feminine] (Latvian), kopa [feminine] (Lithuanian), дина (dina) [feminine] (Macedonian), gumuk (Malay), refers to dunes [plural] (Maori), taipū (Maori), tāhuahua (Maori), манх (manx) (Mongolian), манхан (manxan) (Mongolian), mielle [feminine] (Norman), dyne (Norwegian), дина (dina) [feminine] (Pannonian Rusyn), برهانه (borhāná) [feminine] (Pashto), تلماسه (talmâse) (Persian), ماهور (mâhur) (Persian), Sauntdien [feminine] (Plautdietsch), wydma (Polish), diuna [feminine] (Polish), duna [feminine] (Portuguese), dună [feminine] (Romanian), дю́на (djúna) [feminine] (Russian), барха́н (barxán) [masculine] (Russian), ди́не [Cyrillic, feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), díne [Latin, feminine, plural] (Serbo-Croatian), duna [feminine] (Slovak), sipina [feminine] (Slovene), duna [feminine] (Spanish), médano [masculine] (Spanish), tuta la mchanga (Swahili), dyn [common-gender] (Swedish), хомаи рег (xoma-yi reg) (Tajik), моҳур (mohur) (Tajik), เนินทราย (nəən-saai) (Thai), བྱེ་རི (bye ri) (alt: abbr. of བྱེ་མའི་རི) (Tibetan), kumul (Turkish), aňňat (Turkmen), дю́на (djúna) [feminine] (Ukrainian), барха́н (barxán) [masculine] (Ukrainian), بارخان (barxan) (Uyghur), قۇم بارخىنى (qum barxini) (Uyghur), barxan (Uzbek), qumtepa (Uzbek), đụn cát (Vietnamese), cồn cát (Vietnamese)
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Inflected forms

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          "text": "Heavy line segments (lengthened for clarity) indicate locations of deep-sea dunes.",
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          "ref": "2021 February 23, Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat, Benoit Roman, Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 257:",
          "text": "In the early 2000s, space probes [confirmed Mars as] having dunes […] Their shapes are identical to their Saharan cousins', but they are ten times bigger. In contrast, underwater dunes are a hundred times smaller than their counterparts on solid ground. This universality of dunes is a blessing for physicists: their comparative study confirmed the models that describe the formation of dunes on Earth.",
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        {
          "word": "sand dune"
        },
        {
          "word": "sand-dune"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "geomorphology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dunë"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "kaṯīb",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "كَثِيب"
        },
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ḡurd",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "غُرْد"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "dyun",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "դյուն"
        },
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "avazatʻumb",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ավազաթումբ"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "barxan"
        },
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "dyun"
        },
        {
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "dzjúna",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дзю́на"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "barxán",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "барха́н"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "djúna",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дю́на"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "saa¹ jau¹",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "沙丘"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shāqiū",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "沙丘"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "klit"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duin"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "duno"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "luide"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "düün"
        },
        {
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "tuiskliivahang"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sandheyggjur"
        },
        {
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sandfonn"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "dyyni"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dune"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "diuna",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "დიუნა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Düne"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Sanddüne"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ammólofos",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "αμμόλοφος"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "thína",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "θίνα"
        },
        {
          "code": "gu",
          "lang": "Gujarati",
          "roman": "ḍhūvo",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ઢૂવો"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "ṭibbā",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "टिब्बा"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "bālukūṭ",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "बालुकूट"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "dűne"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "bucka"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sandhóll"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "duno"
        },
        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "gumuk"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dumhach"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "alt": "さきゅう",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "sakyū",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "砂丘"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "barqan",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "барқан"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "döñ",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "дөң"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "qūm töbe",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "құм төбе"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "khsac niə",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ខ្សាច់នារ"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "phnouk",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ផ្នូក"
        },
        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "phnou khsac",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ផ្នូរខ្សាច់"
        },
        {
          "alt": "屯",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "dun",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "둔"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "dundeok",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "둔덕"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "dunchi",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "둔치"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "moraetop",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "모래톱"
        },
        {
          "alt": "砂丘",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "sagu",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "사구"
        },
        {
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "barhan",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "бархан"
        },
        {
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "nœ̄n sāi",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ເນີນຊາຍ"
        },
        {
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "sǣn hāt",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ແຊນຫາດ"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kāpa"
        },
        {
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kopa"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "dina",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дина"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "gumuk"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "refers to dunes"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "taipū"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "tāhuahua"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "manx",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "манх"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "manxan",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "манхан"
        },
        {
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mielle"
        },
        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "dyne"
        },
        {
          "code": "rsk",
          "lang": "Pannonian Rusyn",
          "roman": "dina",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дина"
        },
        {
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "borhāná",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "برهانه"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "talmâse",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "تلماسه"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mâhur",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "ماهور"
        },
        {
          "code": "pdt",
          "lang": "Plautdietsch",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Sauntdien"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "wydma"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "diuna"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dună"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "djúna",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дю́на"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "barxán",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "барха́н"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "ди́не"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "díne"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "sipina"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "duna"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "médano"
        },
        {
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "tuta la mchanga"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "dyn"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "xoma-yi reg",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "хомаи рег"
        },
        {
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "mohur",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "моҳур"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "nəən-saai",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "เนินทราย"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "note": "བྱེ་མའི་རི (bye ma'i ri, literally “mountain of sand”)",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind"
        },
        {
          "alt": "abbr. of བྱེ་མའི་རི",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "bye ri",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "བྱེ་རི"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "note": "བྱེ་ཕུང (bye phung, literally “sand pile”)",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "kumul"
        },
        {
          "code": "tk",
          "lang": "Turkmen",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "aňňat"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "djúna",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дю́на"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "barxán",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "барха́н"
        },
        {
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "barxan",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "بارخان"
        },
        {
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "qum barxini",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "قۇم بارخىنى"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "barxan"
        },
        {
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "qumtepa"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "đụn cát"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
          "word": "cồn cát"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/djuːn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dʒuːn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-dune.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-uk-dune.ogg/En-uk-dune.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-uk-dune.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "June stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dun/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/djun/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪu̯n/",
      "note": "Wales, Ottawa Valley"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dune"
}
{
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          "text": "In the early 2000s, space probes [confirmed Mars as] having dunes […] Their shapes are identical to their Saharan cousins', but they are ten times bigger. In contrast, underwater dunes are a hundred times smaller than their counterparts on solid ground. This universality of dunes is a blessing for physicists: their comparative study confirmed the models that describe the formation of dunes on Earth.",
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "dunë"
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      "word": "كَثِيب"
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "դյուն"
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "word": "duna"
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      "roman": "dzjúna",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "дзю́на"
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      "roman": "barxán",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "duna"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "word": "沙丘"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "word": "沙丘"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "duna"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "word": "duin"
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "düün"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "dyyni"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "dune"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "word": "duna"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "diuna",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "დიუნა"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Düne"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "code": "gu",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "word": "ઢૂવો"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "टिब्बा"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "bālukūṭ",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "बालुकूट"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "dűne"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "bucka"
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "duno"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "gumuk"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "dumhach"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "duna"
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      "alt": "さきゅう",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "砂丘"
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      "code": "kk",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "барқан"
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "дөң"
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "құм төбе"
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      "roman": "khsac niə",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "ខ្សាច់នារ"
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      "roman": "phnouk",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "ផ្នូក"
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      "roman": "phnou khsac",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "ផ្នូរខ្សាច់"
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    {
      "alt": "屯",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "dun",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "둔"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "dundeok",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "둔덕"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "dunchi",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "둔치"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "moraetop",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "모래톱"
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      "alt": "砂丘",
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      "roman": "sagu",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "사구"
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      "code": "ky",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "бархан"
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      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "nœ̄n sāi",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "ເນີນຊາຍ"
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      "roman": "sǣn hāt",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "ແຊນຫາດ"
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
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      "word": "манх"
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      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mielle"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "dyne"
    },
    {
      "code": "rsk",
      "lang": "Pannonian Rusyn",
      "roman": "dina",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дина"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "borhāná",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "برهانه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "talmâse",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "تلماسه"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mâhur",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "ماهور"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sauntdien"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "wydma"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "diuna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "duna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dună"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "djúna",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дю́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "barxán",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "барха́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ди́не"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "díne"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "duna"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sipina"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "duna"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "médano"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "tuta la mchanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dyn"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "xoma-yi reg",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "хомаи рег"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "mohur",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "моҳур"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "nəən-saai",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "เนินทราย"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "note": "བྱེ་མའི་རི (bye ma'i ri, literally “mountain of sand”)",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind"
    },
    {
      "alt": "abbr. of བྱེ་མའི་རི",
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "bye ri",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "བྱེ་རི"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "note": "བྱེ་ཕུང (bye phung, literally “sand pile”)",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "kumul"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "aňňat"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "djúna",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дю́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "barxán",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "барха́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "barxan",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "بارخان"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "qum barxini",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "قۇم بارخىنى"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "barxan"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "qumtepa"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "đụn cát"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind",
      "word": "cồn cát"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dune"
}

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