dong
/dɔŋ/
verb
- To make a deep ringing sound.
- I heard the church bells donging in the distance.
- The clock donged loudly, waking everyone up.
- The old bell donged three times to signal the start of the ceremony.
noun
- A deep, resonant sound, like that of a large bell.
- We heard the dong of a temple bell across the valley.
- The clock tower let out a loud dong at noon.
- Each dong of the grandfather clock marked the passing hour.
- The basic monetary unit of Vietnam.
- The street food cost only twenty thousand dong.
- She exchanged her dollars for Vietnamese dong at the bank.
- He saved up several million dong for his trip to Hanoi.