Dylan

American

[dil-uhn] / ˈdɪl ən /

noun

Bob Robert Zimmerman, born 1941, U.S. folk-rock singer, guitarist, and composer.
a male given name.

Dylan British

/ ˈdɪlən /

noun

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)

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Dylanesque

adjective

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Price also confessed, “We’re pulling from Bob Dylan, ‘Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.’

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Joe Schmidt's Australia led by five points at the break after tries from Dylan Pietsch, Jock Campbell, Josh Canham and Ryan Lonergan in an energetic first-half display.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

They include Dylan Field of design-software company Figma, at $864 million, and Kaz Nejatian of Opendoor Technologies, an online real-estate transaction platform, at $741 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Onstage as on your phone, Dylan was searching for new limits Wednesday — a lifer grinding toward the sublime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

But I can’t let her know what Dylan told me.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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