dj
/ˈdi(ː)(.)d͡ʒeɪ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
2
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
name
Dow Jones & Company, an American publishing firm.
name
Initialism of David Jones, an Australian luxury department store.
Example Sentences
- "Last night a DJ saved my life / Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart"
- "Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ / Because the music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life"
- "Three MC's and one DJ / We be getting down with no delay"
- "“I like to put it simply,” says Randy “R Dub!” Williams, a late-night “slow jams” DJ from San Diego who’s also known as “the Sultan of Slowjamastan.” “I ran out of countries, so I created my own.”"
- "A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space."
- "DJ shares fell as much as 4.7% in Sydney after Australia’s second-biggest department-store chain said McInnes would leave his role and the board immediately and that Paul Zahra, general manager, would assume the CEO’s role."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.
Inflected Forms
DJs (plural)
DJs (present, singular)
DJ's (present, singular)
DJing (participle, present)
DJ'ing (participle, present)
DJed (participle, past)
DJed (past)
DJ'd (participle, past)
DJ'd (past)
DJ'ed (participle, past)
DJ'ed (past)