dingdong

1. 1.

   go `ding dong', like a bell

   Synonymsdingdong

   Broaderring

1. 1.

   heartily or earnestly

   “They fell to work dingdong”

   colloquialism

Other forms of dingdong

past tense

dingdonged·

present participle

dingdonging·

third person

dingdongs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dingdong

What does dingdong mean?

dingdong means "go `ding dong', like a bell". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dingdong?

dingdong has 2 syllables: ding-dong. The stress falls on "dong".

What is another word for dingdong?

Close synonyms include ding, dong. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dingdong a common word?

dingdong is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.