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Grammar : Noun
Spell : doo, dyoo
Phonetic Transcription : du, dyu



Définition of dew

Origin :
  • Old English deaw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz (cf. Old Saxon dau, Old Frisian daw, Middle Dutch dau, Old High German tau, German Tau, Old Norse dögg "dew"), from PIE root *dheu- (2) "to flow" (cf. Sanskrit dhavate "flows, runs").
  • noun moisture
Example sentences :
  • It looks as if the dew was on it; but the tears will not make it grow again—will they?
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Nonsense must have the dew on it, or it is good for nothing.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • She has faded away like a rainbow—like a drop of dew in the sun.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • Not only all night, but all day, has the dew lain upon its purity.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • She was walking down a lane, her short skirts brushed by the morning dew.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • She had much to say of dew and roses, turtledoves and the arrows of Cupid.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • Wou'd to God it may prove false, and that it may vanish like the dew of the morning.
  • Extract from : « The Fall of British Tyranny » by John Leacock
  • But the duration of their sovereignty was as a summer cloud or morning dew.
  • Extract from : « Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI » by Various
  • The night dew on his cheeks was not colder than his tears as he knelt by his father's grave.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • Can we stand still and receive it like the dew, without work?
  • Extract from : « The Prodigal Returns » by Lilian Staveley

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