dew
pronunciation
How to pronounce dew in British English:
UK [djuː]
How to pronounce dew in American English:
US [duː]
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- Noun:
- water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air
Word Origin
- dew
- dew: [OE] Dew is an ancient word, which can be traced back to the Indo-European base *dheu-; this also produced Greek thein ‘run’ and Sanskrit dhāv ‘flow, wash’ (whence, via Hindi, English dhobi ‘Indian washerman’ [19]) and dhaūtís ‘brook’. Its Germanic descendant was *dauwaz, which produced (besides English dew) German tau, Dutch dauw, and Swedish dagg.=> dhobi
- dew (n.)
- Old English deaw, from Proto-Germanic *dawwaz (cognates: 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" (cognates: Sanskrit dhavate "flows, runs").
Example
- 1. Only this dew I eat for six days .
- 2. Reveal the navel and abdomen hollowing out , or big dew back design all looks sexy .
- 3. Around dew pond grows a grove of towering bamboo , beyond which the trade winds blow incessantly from the south-east .
- 4. The dew made everything on the ground sparkle , and reaffirmed his belief that this was truly god 's country .
- 5. When I got hungry , I could nibble on chocolate root and sip dew from a buttercup .