dunes

Meaning of dunes

plural noun
  1. a mound or ridge of sand or other loose sediment formed by the wind, especially on the sea coast or in a desert.
    a sand dune

early 17th century: from Dutch duin, from Middle Dutch dūne, probably ultimately from the same Celtic base as down3.

Information about dunes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of dunes is: dune.
  • Languages ​​in which dunes is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of dunes

dunes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dunes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dunes synonyms

Meaning the land alongside or sloping down to a river or lake:

bank

Meaning a small hill:

mound

Meaning a small hill or mound:

hillock, knoll

Meaning a hillock or knoll:

hummock

Meaning an upward movement; an instance of rising:

rise

Meaning a long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed:

ridge

Meaning an untidy collection of objects placed haphazardly on top of each other:

heap

Meaning a large mass of snow, leaves, or other material piled up or carried along by the wind:

drift

Meaning the acquisition or gradual gathering of something:

accumulation

Anagrams of dunes

Dusen, nudes

Words that rhyme with dunes

aunes, flaunes, posaunes, tribunes, lacunes, dejeunes, lagunes, cohunes, triunes, Junes, disjunes, apolunes, clunes, demilunes, lunes, perilunes, plenilunes, semilunes, Viramunes, communes, immunes, intercommunes, Nunes, swounes, prunes, runes, attunes, befortunes, detunes, disattunes, distunes, fortunes, iTunes, importunes, infortunes, misfortunes, mistunes, retunes, tunes, unfortunes, untunes, picayunes

Are you looking more rhymes for dunes? Try our rhymes search engine.