ding-dong
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3.6
- noun
- /dɪŋ dɔŋ/
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ding-dong
- I heard a cheerful ding-dong as I rang the doorbell.
Examples
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Women in heels clicked erratically around them, people brushed past them and overcame them from behind, and all the while the trains were coming and going with the ding-dong of the departure announcements.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Roman coaches with the ding-dong of their warning bells drove carefully.
Fiction book (1996) -
"We work in the morning hear the ding-dong ring...
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I heard that ding-dong you had with Forsythe.
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He pressed the hard bell nipple and heard a muffled, deep ding-dong.
Fiction book (2000) -
DING DONG!
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The ding-dong of the church bell signaled the start of the wedding.
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As she pressed the button, the ding-dong echoed through the empty house.
Synonyms
221
1.0
A clear ringing sound made by a struck metal object
133
1.0
A clear loud sound a bell or similar thing makes when hit
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1.7
A clear musical ringing sound made by a bell or a set of bells
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3.3
A sound made by bells during a ceremony or musical performance
Clear ringing sounds that bells make
A light ringing sound made by bells or wind chimes
A short bell sound on a phone or app that signals a message
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ding-dong copies the two sounds a bell makes: ding and dong. So, a ding-dong is the repeated ringing or doorbell 'sound', and that helps you remember it is the noise you hear when someone is at the door.