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dong
1[ dawng, dong ]
noun
- a deep sound like that of a large bell.
dong
2[ dawng, dong ]
noun
- the basic monetary unit of Vietnam: replaced the southern piaster and the northern dong in 1978.
dong
3[ dawng, dong ]
noun
dong
1/ dɒŋ /
verb
- intr (of a bell) to make a deep reverberating sound
- informal.tr to strike or punch
dông
2/ dɒŋ /
noun
- the standard monetary unit of Vietnam, divided into 10 hào or 100 xu
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Example Sentences
On the southern side of the JSA, there is a village called Daeseong-dong (대성동).
On the northern side of the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea, there is a village called Kijong-dong (기정동).
Director Yoo Dong-hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.
I called it “ding-dong diplomacy”; Governor Richardson wisely pointed out that “basketball diplomacy” is better than none.
The Official Charts Company described Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead as "one of the most controversial chart contenders of all time".
No tedious ding-dong daily practice—just 20 brief, entertaining lessons, easily mastered.
Think of that: cradled innocence and angels' dreams and the whole of the hymn just before ding-dong-bang on noses and jaws!
Other deep toned bells joined in; they were tolling in solemn concert—ding, dong!
His voice seemed unusually loud and a trifle off key like the dong of a cracked bell.
In the old days, under Dong Ling's rule, there had been no gas stove.
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