• IPA: /dʌb/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /dʊb/

From a Late Old English (11th century) word dubban, dubbian ("to knight by striking with a sword") perhaps borrowed from Old French adober (also 11th century, Modern French adouber, from Proto-Germanic *dubjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Cognate with Icelandic dubba (dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (transitive, now, historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.

   Synonyms: knight

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii], page 154 ↗, column 2:

     You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.

   • 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter II, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC ↗, part I, page 114 ↗:

     It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […] .

2. (transitive) To name, to entitle, to call. [from the later 16th c.]

   Synonyms: designate, name, Thesaurus:denominate

   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC ↗:

     They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:

     As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

3. (transitive) To deem.

   Synonyms: consider, think of, Thesaurus:deem

   • 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

     A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.

4. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.

   Synonyms: deck out, embellish, Thesaurus:decorate

   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC ↗; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC ↗:

     His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (heading) To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
   1. To dress with an adze.

      to dub a stick of timber smooth

   2. To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
   3. To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
      • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson (scientist), Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures

        When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow

   4. To dress a fishing fly.
6. To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

• French: adouber
• German: zum Ritter schlagen
• Italian: insignire
• Russian: посвящать в рыцарь

• French: reconnaître (en tant que...)
• German: nennen, bezeichnen, rufen
• Italian: intitolare, nominare, chiamare, denominare
• Portuguese: chamar, apelidar
• Russian: дать прозвище/кличка
• Spanish: apodar

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
   • 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Mad Lover”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC ↗, Act I, scene i:

     Now the drum dubb's.

2. To do something badly.
3. (golf) To execute a shot poorly.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
   • 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC ↗:

     And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub
     Sounds like the hooping of a tub

2. (golf) A poorly executed shot.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person. [from the later part of the 19th c]

From a shortening of the word double.

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. To add sound to film or change audio on film. [from the first half of the 20th c]
2. To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
3. To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
4. To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.

• Italian: doppiare
• Russian: дубли́ровать
• Spanish: doblar

• Russian: дубли́ровать

• French: doubler
• German: synchronisieren
• Italian: doppiare
• Portuguese: dobrar (Portugal), dublar (Brazil)
• Russian: дубли́ровать
• Spanish: doblar

• Italian: miscelare

dub

1. (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
2. (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
3. (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
4. (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
5. (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.

• French: dub
• German: Dub
• Portuguese: dub
• Spanish: dub

From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar, Welsh dŵr.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.
   • 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC ↗:

     “Has he nae friends?” said she, in a tearful voice.
     “That has he so!” cried Alan, “if we could but win to them!—friends and rich friends, beds to lie in, food to eat, doctors to see to him—and here he must tramp in the dubs and sleep in the heather like a beggarman.”

From shortening of double dime ("twenty").

dub (plural dubs)

1. (slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
2. (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.

From dup ("to open"), from do + up, from Middle English .

dub (dubs, present participle dubbing; simple past and past participle dubbed)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves) To open or close.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves) A lock.
2. (obsolete, UK, thieves) A key, especially a master key; a lock pick.

dub (plural dubs)

1. Clipping of double-u
   1. (video games, internet slang) A win.

      I haven't had a dub in a few games.

dub (plural dubs)

1. (India, historical) A small copper coin once used in India.

dub (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Initialism of dysfunctional uterine bleeding

• IPA: /dʌb/

dub (plural dubs)

1. (Ireland, colloquial) A Dubliner.

1. (after a qualification) Abbreviation of University of Dublin used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.