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

In last year’s Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” Dylan and Johnny Cash appear together on screen just twice, after a long epistolary bromance.

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Another impression, Bob Dylan, came out of Johnson’s personal passions as a musician and hardcore fan.

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"We sat on the couch in tears, Ethan and Dylan both wrapped up in each other, then the dog jumped over and started licking the tears off our faces, which was rather silly."

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He had finished the climb and was hauling up equipment when he likely rappelled off the end of his rope, Dylan said.

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Years before that, though, she attended music school on a scholarship and grew up listening to the artists her mother played around the house, such as Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan and The Beatles.

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