dins

• IPA^(key): /dɪnz/
• Rhymes: -ɪnz

dins

1. plural of din

dins

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of din

dins (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Dinner.

   What's for dins tonight?

• Sind, NDIS, INDs, IDNs, ISDN, NIDS, nids, DNIs

Inherited from Vulgar Latin dē intus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdins]
• Rhymes: -ins

dins

1. in, within, inside

dins

1. in, within, inside

• dintre

• endins

• “dins” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “dins”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Blend of dans +‎ les

• IPA^(key): /dɛ̃.z‿/ (before modified word in a vowel or mute h)
• IPA^(key): /dɛ̃/ (before modified word in a consonant or aspirate h)

dins

1. (Quebec, spoken, informal) in the (plural)
   • 2012 (10 October), Hugo Pilon-Larose, "SPVM: l'agent 728 frappe à nouveau", La Presse:

     En parlant de l'arrestation de M. Lavoie, elle dit: « [...] Là évidemment, y s'laisse pas faire, là l'encolure ostie, chu en train de l'étouffer, là je me bats avec dins escaliers, on se bat avec dins escaliers. [...] »

     Describing Mr. Lavoie's arrest, she says, "Of course he didn't let it happen, the fucking collar, I'm strangling him, now I'm fighting with him in the stairs, we're fighting with him in the stairs."

• din, dens

From Old Occitan dins, from Vulgar Latin dē intus.

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dins

1. in; inside of

From Vulgar Latin dē intus.

dins

1. in; inside of

• Occitan: dins

From Vulgar Latin dē intus.

dins

1. in; inside of

dins

1. definite genitive singular of di

dins

1. plural of din

Contraction of the Latin de intus.

• IPA^(key): /dɛ̃/

dins

1. in, inside
2. among, within (a definite group)

• divins, ådvins di, didins