dit
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dit
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
“At art fairs, people look too quickly,” said Jason Poirier dit Caulier, the founder and director of the Plus-One Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
Jean Charles dit Yenapono Some, governor of the Cascades region in a statement.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
They emit a sound each time his hand makes contact — from the right, a dit, or dot; from the left, a dah, or dash, the building blocks of the Morse code alphabet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Many critics and fans disagreed–and I’m guessing that some of them will wish these two hours were a little more, comment se dit, zoobezoo?
From Time ● Apr. 4, 2013
Jacques a dit is “Simon Says” in French, by the way.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
He doesn’t talk much; he prefers the dits and dahs to communicate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
The copy gets beaten out on the portable typewriter, gets trimmed by the censor with his little looseleaf notebook of directives, gets whisked to the cable office, flicks undersea in dits and dots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady Dering has been absent on the Continent during the season, and is utterly ignorant of all the on dits of the day.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
She is reading the fashionable daily paper, smiling as some on dits meet her eye.
From The Coquette's Victim Everyday Life Library No. 1 by Brame, Charlotte M.
As we got into our saddles the humming-birds were whirring round the tree-tops; the Qu’est-ce qu’il dits inquiring the subject of our talk.
From At Last by Kingsley, Charles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
