Sound; the aggregate of sounds occurring in a particular place or at a particular time; (also) disturbance caused by sounds, discordancy, (in early…

Noisy talk; confused din of voices, gabble. Often applied contemptuously to what is treated as mere empty gabble.

A confused or discordant medley of sounds, esp. of voices; a hubbub, a din. Perhaps influenced by babble, n. 2 in later use.

Cf. burly, n., burle, n.

Disturbance, confused noise.

A confused noise, uproar, clamour, racket, hubbub, clatter.

Confused noise of inanimate things; clutter, rattle, confused din.

(See quot. 1847).

A noise consisting of the disorderly mixture of many rapid and more or less simultaneous sounds; mingled rattle. (Cf. clatter, n.1) archaic or dialect…

A medley or ‘babel’ of sounds.

A serenade of ‘rough music’, with kettles, pans, tea-trays, and the like, used in France, in mockery and derision of incongruous or unpopular…

humorous or figurative. A cacophony or tirade; a musical effect produced by many voices or noises sounding together.

In milder sense: the mingled din of a crowd, or of a multitude of speakers heard at once.

A cacophonous bout of noise-making performed by a group of people with a variety of instruments, utensils, etc., as a demonstration of a general…