dub
- 01 B2 Upper Intermediate
v.to give someone or something a particular name or nickname.
v.to confer a name, title, or nickname upon a person or thing. Transitive; often used in the passive voice.
Simple“The media dubbed him the 'King of Pop' because of his huge success.”
In context“The press quickly dubbed the new skyscraper 'The Shard' due to its distinctive glass exterior and sharp, angular peak.”
- 02 B2 Upper Intermediate
v.to replace the original speech in a film with a translation in another language.
v.to provide a film or television programme with a new soundtrack, typically a synchronized translation of the original dialogue.
Simple“I prefer watching foreign movies with subtitles rather than dubbed versions.”
In context“The studio decided to dub the animated feature into twelve different languages to maximize its international box-office potential.”
Synonymsvoice overAntonyms - 03 C2 Proficiency
v.to make someone a knight by touching their shoulders with a sword.
v.to confer knighthood upon a person by the ceremonial tapping of the shoulder with a sword.
Simple“The Queen dubbed the explorer a knight for his services to science.”
In context“In a traditional ceremony, the monarch dubbed the veteran diplomat a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.”
Synonyms - 04 C1 Advanced
n.a slang word for a victory or a win.
n.a slang term for a victory, derived from the phonetic pronunciation of the letter 'W'.
Simple“Our team played great today and we finally got the dub.”
In context“After a grueling overtime period, the squad managed to secure the dub and advance to the regional finals.”
“Analysts dub this phenomenon "screen tourism," the kind that encourages visits to film and TV locations, a trend which is particularly popular among Millennials and Generation Z.”
“Fire Rush announced a singular literary talent: a novelist capable of fusing the propulsive rhythms of dub music with the spiritual inheritance of African spiritualism, defying conventional realism.”
From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”). Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
1505-1515
1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub.
From a shortening of the word double.
From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”).
From shortening of double dime (“twenty”).
From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.