dune
noun /djuːn/
/duːn/
(also sand dune)
- a small hill of sand formed by the wind, near the sea or in a desert
enlarge imageWordfinderTopics Geographyb2- beach
- cliff
- coast
- dune
- headland
- inlet
- promontory
- sea
- shore
- tide
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDune is used before these nouns:- buggy
- sand
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Middle Dutch dūne; related to Old English dūn ‘hill’ (related to Dutch duin ‘dune’), perhaps ultimately of Celtic origin and related to Old Irish dún and obsolete Welsh din ‘fort’.
