name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
dew
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/d͡ʒuː/ yod-coalescence
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/djuː/ non-yod-coalescence
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/duː/ yod-dropping
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Canada, Wales: /dɪu̯/
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homophone: due
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homophone: do
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homophone: doo (yod-dropping)
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homophone: Jew (yod-coalescence)
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CMU ARPABET: D UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Freestone County, Texas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rore
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: but see usage notes
Examples
- There was a heavy dew this morning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
Acronym of Distant Early Warning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Qualifier: nuclear warfare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 9
Initialism of directed-energy weapon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: energy weapon, weapon
verb
Meaning 10
To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To deposit dew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 12
water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- in the morning the grass was wet with dew
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: condensation, condensate
History
Etymology
From Middle English dew, from Old English dēaw (“dew”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz, *dawwą (“dew, moisture”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhewh2- (“smoke, haze”). Cognate with German Tau, Dutch dauw and Afrikaans dou. Doublet of dag.
From Middle English dewe, dewen, from Old English *dēawian, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwēn, from Proto-Germanic *dawwāną. Cognates include Saterland Frisian daue, German tauen and Dutch dauwen.
Across languages
Translations
256 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: dou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ahom: 𑜃𑜩 (nay) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ahom: 𑜃𑜩𑜐𑜫 (nayñ) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Southern Altai: чий (čiy) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Amis: 'o'ol — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Andi: щиб (ššib) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Arabic: نَدَى (nadā) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Arabic: طَلّ (ṭall) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Arabic: سَقِيط (saqīṭ) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Arabic: ندى (nda) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Armenian: ցող (cʻoġ) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Armenian: շաղ (šaġ) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Aromanian: aroauã — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Assamese: নিয়ৰ (nir) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Asturian: rosada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Asturian: orbayu — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Asturian: rociu — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Avar: щуб (ššub) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Azerbaijani: şeh — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Azerbaijani: şəbnəm — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Azerbaijani: jalə — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Azerbaijani: nəmçik — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- West Coast Bajau: ambun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Bashkir: ысыҡ (ısıq) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Basque: ihintz — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Basque: garo — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Belarusian: раса́ (rasá) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Bengali: শিশির (śiśir) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Bengali: শবনম (śobonom) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Bau Bidayuh: jumieh — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Central Bikol: tunog — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Brunei Bisaya: ambun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Budukh: шегь (šeh) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Bulgarian: роса́ (rosá) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Burmese: ဆီးနှင်း (hci:hnang:) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Carpathian Rusyn: роса́ (rosá) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Catalan: rosada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Catalan: rou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Cebuano: yamog — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Eastern Cham: ꨀꨳꨩ ꨆꨆꨶꨮꩉ (ia kakwơr) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Eastern Cham: ꨆꨆꨶꨮꩉ (kakwơr) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chechen: тхир (txir) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chepang: सीत् (sit) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chinese Cantonese: 露水 (lou6 seoi2) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chinese: лўфи (lwfi) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chinese: луфи (lufi) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chinese: 露水 (zh-min-nan) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chinese Mandarin: 露水 (lùshuǐ) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Chinese Mandarin: 露 (lù) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Czech: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Dalmatian: ruzuda — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Danish: dug — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Daur: suidur — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Dongxiang: xiaojierun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Drung: nvmnor — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Dutch: dauw — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Esperanto: roso — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Estonian: kaste — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Even: хилэс (hiləs) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Faroese: døgg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Finnish: kaste — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- French: rosée — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Friulian: rosade — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Galician: resío — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Galician: rosada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Galician: relento — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Galician: orballo — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Georgian: ნამი (nami) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Georgian: ცვარი (cvari) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- German: Tau — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Godoberi: щиби — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Gorontalo: wonu — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Greek: πάχνη (páchni) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Greek: δροσιά (drosiá) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Greek: δρόσος (drósos) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ancient Greek: δρόσος (drósos) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ancient Greek: δροσία (drosía) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ancient Greek: ἕρση (hérsē) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Cappadocian Greek: σ̌άγι (šági) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Gujarati: ઝાકળ (jhākaḷ) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Haitian Creole: larouze — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Haitian Creole: laroze — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Hebrew: טַל (tal) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Hindi: ओस (os) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Hindi: शबनम (śabnam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Hindi: नम (nam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- White Hmong: lwg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Hungarian: harmat — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Hunsrik: Daa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iban: embun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Icelandic: dögg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Indonesian: embun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ingrian: kasse — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ingrian: kasi — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ingush: тхир (txir) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Interlingua: rore — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranun: damug — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranun: ambun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Irish: drúcht — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Istriot: ruzàda — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Italian: rugiada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Japanese: 露 (tsuyu) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Kazakh: шық (şyq) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Khmer: សន្សើម (sɑɑsɑnsaəm) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Kimaragang: bolobou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Komi-Zyrian: лысва (lysva) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Korean: 이슬 (iseul) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Central Kurdish: خوناو (xunaw) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Central Kurdish: ئاوِنگ (awing) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Central Kurdish: شەونِم (şewnim) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Laki: ئاڤێ (avê) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Northern Kurdish: xunav — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Northern Kurdish: avî — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Northern Kurdish: şevnem — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Southern Kurdish: ئاوِنگ (awing) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Southern Kurdish: ئانگوو (angû) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Southern Kurdish: شەونِم (şewnim) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Kyrgyz: шүүдүрүм (şüüdürüm) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lao: ນ້ໍາຄ້າງ (nam khāng) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lao: ເຫມືອຍ (mư̄ai) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lao: ເຫມີຍ (mœ̄i) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Latgalian: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Latin: rōs — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Latvian: rasa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lezgi: чиг (čig) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lithuanian: rasa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lotud: bolobou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Louisiana Creole: larozé — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Louisiana Creole: séren — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lutuv: aduo — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Luxembourgish: Da — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Macedonian: роса (rosa) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Malagasy: ando — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Malay: embun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Malay: nyamur — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Maltese: nida — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Manchu: ᠰᡳᠯᡝᠩᡤᡳ (silenggi) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: haukōpata — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: haukū — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: kōpata — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: haurahi — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: haurutu — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: hautaorua — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: hautōrua — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: taituri — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Māori: haunui — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Marathi: दव (dav) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Eastern Mari: лупс (lups) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Western Mari: лыпш (lypš) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Mazanderani: شی (šey) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Central Melanau: mun — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Middle English: dew — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Mongolian: шүүдэр (šüüder) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠭᠦᠳᠡᠷᠢ (sigüderi) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tagal Murut: bolobou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Timugon Murut: bolobou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Nanai: силэмсэ (silemse) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Navajo: dahtooʼ — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Norwegian Bokmål: dogg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Norwegian Bokmål: dugg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dogg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Nuosu: ꍑꒉ (zhet yy) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Occitan: rosada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Odia: କାକର (kākara) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Church Slavic: роса (rosa) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Church Slavic: ⱃⱁⱄⰰ (rosa) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Old English: dēaw — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Old Norse: dǫgg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Oromo: fixeensa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Pacoh: lataq tulúc — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Pannonian Rusyn: роса (rosa) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Pashto: شبنم (šabnám) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranian Persian: شَبْنَم (šabnam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranian Persian: ژالِه (žâle) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranian Persian: نَم (nam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranian Persian: اَفْشَک (afšak) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Iranian Persian: بَژْم (bažm) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Plautdietsch: Deiw — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Polabian: rösă — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Polish: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Portuguese: orvalho — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Portuguese: sereno — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Portuguese: riço — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Punjabi: ਤ੍ਰੇਲ (trel) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Punjabi: ਤਰੇਲ (tarel) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Romanian: rouă — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Romansh: rugada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Rungus: bbollobbou — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Russian: роса́ (rosá) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Russian: роси́нка (rosínka) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Saanich: so,sX̱ — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Sanskrit: अवश्या (avaśyā) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Sanskrit: दानु (dānu) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Sardinian: lentore — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Sardinian: saghina — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Sardinian: sanenu — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Scots: dyow — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Serbo-Croatian: ро̀са — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Serbo-Croatian: ròsa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Shan: ၼၢႆး (náai) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Shor: арчы (arçı) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Slovak: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Slovene: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Lower Sorbian: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Upper Sorbian: rosa — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: rocío — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: sereno — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: relente — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: cencellada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: rociada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: roción — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: cenceñada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Spanish: recencellada — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Swahili: umande — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Swedish: dagg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tabasaran: чиг (čig) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tagalog: hamog — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tajik: жола (žola) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tajik: шабнам (šabnam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tarifit: nnda — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Tatar: чык (çıq) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Thai: น้ําค้าง (nám-káang) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Turkish: şebnem — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Turkish: çiy — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Turkish: çiğ — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Turkish: kırağı — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Turkish: jale — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Turkmen: çyg — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Udmurt: лысву (lysvu) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ugaritic: 𐎉𐎍 (ṭl) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Ukrainian: роса́ (rosá) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Urdu: اوس (os) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Urdu: شَبْنَم (śabnam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Urdu: نَم (nam) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Urdu: ژالَہ (źāla) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Uyghur: شەبنەم (shebnem) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Uzbek: shabnam — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Vietnamese: sương — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Volapük: gödaluim — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Welsh: gwlith — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Yakkha: छेक — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Yiddish: טוי (toy) — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Zande: ure — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Zhuang: naiz — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Zhuang: raiz — moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc
- Afrikaans: dou — moisten
- Bulgarian: оросявам (orosjavam) — moisten
- Catalan: enrosar — moisten
- Dutch: bedauwen — moisten
- Finnish: kostuttaa — moisten
- Finnish: kastaa — moisten
- Georgian: ნამავს (namavs) — moisten
- Macedonian: наросува (narosuva) — moisten
- Macedonian: заросува (zarosuva) — moisten
- Middle English: dewen — moisten
- Russian: оросить (orositʹ) — moisten