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. 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)

Other Word Forms

• Dylanesque adjective

Example Sentences

Ringleader Dylan Earl was recruited by the Wagner Group, a mercenary organisation that acts on behalf of the Russian state and is proscribed by the UK government as a terrorist organisation.

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Mr. Robbins returns in the last play, which gives the evening its title, again on a first date, with a character denoted only as Girl, played with cool poise by Dylan Gelula.

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While he was a student, he met Dylan Hubeart, who became his wife, longtime collaborator and the woman behind the camera when he needed to pose as Indiana Jones.

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Last year’s superb Bob Dylan picture “A Complete Unknown” admirably avoided these clichéd methods.

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Dylan Earl, 21, is set to become the first person to be sentenced under the new National Security Act, which carries a maximum term of life in prison.

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