Dylan

American  

[dil-uhn] / ˈdɪl ən /

noun

1. Bob Robert Zimmerman, born 1941, U.S. folk-rock singer, guitarist, and composer.

2. a male given name.

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Dylan British  

/ 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)

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Other Word Forms

• Dylanesque
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Dylan

However, I can say Josh Dylan and Antonia Thomas do justice to their modernized versions of Christie’s power couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Moonshot’s roughly 300 employees sometimes wear slippers in the office and step into conference rooms named after bands and musicians including Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Queen, Prince and Bob Dylan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Kieran Robson, 35, Uzma Bashir, 56, Ricky Southall, 34, Autumn Taylor Ward, 22, Rebecca Sian Davies, 29, John Moxley, 58, and Dylan Chiaramello, 24, were all charged with criminal damage following the protest.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Hayley Dylan is seeking unspecified economic and non-economic damages from Scott, who was 26 and married at the time of the encounter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Nothing beats the Pacific Ocean,” Dylan states flatly.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes