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Dylan

[ dil-uhn ]

noun

  1. Bob Robert Zimmerman, born 1941, U.S. folk-rock singer, guitarist, and composer.
  2. a male given name.


Dylan

/ ˈdɪlən /

noun

  1. DylanBob1941MUSMUSIC: rock singerMUSIC: songwriter Bob. real name Robert Allen Zimmerman. born 1941, US rock singer and songwriter, also noted for his acoustic protest songs in the early 1960s. His albums include The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Blonde on Blonde (1966), John Wesley Harding (1968), Blood on the Tracks (1974), Oh Mercy (1989), Time Out of Mind (1997), and Love and Theft (2001)


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Derived Forms

  • ˌDylanˈesque, adjective

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Example Sentences

This performance of Bob Dylan's 1971 blues tune features Clapton on guitar.

But Willie Watson is a throwback to the days of Woody Guthrie and early Bob Dylan.

Are you going to pass up a chance to share songwriting credits with Dylan?

Dylan McDonald, 17, whose face was painted blue and white, said the nation had spoken.

[Laughs] And then we had Bob Dylan sing “Return to Me” especially for us.

Llewyrch ebyr myr, morfeydd dylan; Pan lewych huan ar fann fynydd.

No wave ever broke under him; he swam like a fish; and hence was called Dylan Eil Ton or "son of the wave."

And for that reason was he called Dylan, the son of the Wave.

Dylan, however, has no dark traits and is described as a blonde.

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