du
(in names of French derivation) a contraction of de and the article le:
du
1 American
[doo, dyoo, dy ]
/ du, dju, dü /
Du.
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abbreviation
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Duke.
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Dutch.
Du.
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Duke
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DU
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Example Sentences
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In 2017, Altmayer received, together with his brother, the Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize for the best French producer of the year given by France's equivalent of the Academy Awards.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A romantic Hitchcock using lyrical camera movements in an atmospheric, haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe and Université de Paris carried out highly precise nickel isotope measurements on samples gathered over many years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
But he had lost significant time to Pogacar on stage five's climb up the Col du Tourmalet and Saturday's gruelling stage up Le Markstein in the Vosges mountains.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Lady du Burgh,” said Werfel, “you are a wonder. You are the queen of hospitality.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Other explanations are flayed, from Du. villen, to flay; or filed, ranged in rows upon a stick, where stick is represented by stac.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Eng. slipen, cognate with Old Du. slijpen, to polish, sharpen, and Ger. schleifen.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
It is Du. ezel, ass, which, like Ger.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Skeat derives the Eng. duck from Du. dock, but the Sco. word agrees more closely with the Norse.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
As a matter of fact the two words are quite unrelated, though the origin of Du. ruiter is disputed.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
A native Angeleno with a background in feature and documentary filmmaking, Brown conceived of the concept after a chat with architect Robert Thibodeau, co-founder of Venice-based DU Architects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Porter was at the time a student and basketball player at DU; he left the school in early 2023.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
His sister is a DU alum along with a number of extended family members.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Department of Defense and Veterans Administration started monitoring service members for DU exposure during the Gulf War, and this program is still running.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
Svengali's transformation of a girl with no ear for music into a singer of marvellous powers seems to have been almost paralleled in real life, half a century ago:— DU MAURIER'S HOUSE.
From Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel by Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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