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

For 15 years, Dylan Shepherd’s band was as close as you could get to seeing Oasis onstage.

From Los Angeles Times

Bob Dylan’s on there as well — they do “The Very Thought of You.”

From Los Angeles Times

Stewart, who came out as queer and married screenwriter Dylan Meyer in April, said the films are “gay” during an interview with Variety in January.

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On one occasion, he remembers being in Paris and recording and “mashing” two drum lines together for “Somewhere in Between” with another pianist, Dylan.

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The Beatles and Bob Dylan shaped his songwriting as did his mom’s tape of “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook.”

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