dune

noun/duːn/

Frequency rank: #9,726 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind.

Illustration for the English word “dune”

Example sentence

The children ran up the steep sand dune and rolled back down laughing.

Synonyms & related words

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