Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable)Any moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces.

    water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air

  2. (uncountable)Moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc in the morning or evening, resulting in drops.

    Tau

    роса́rosá, роси́нкаrosínka

    роса́rosá

  3. (countable)An instance of such moisture settling on plants, etc.

    There was a heavy dew this morning.

  4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything that falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.

  5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)An emblem of morning, or fresh vigour.

Examples

33 sentences
  1. The dew evaporated when the sun rose.

    ruКогда солнце поднялось, роса испарилась.

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  2. The dew falls in early morning.

    Роса осідає рано-вранці.

    ruКаждое утро выступает роса.

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  3. Our enemies will vanish like dew in the sun.

    Згинуть наші воріженьки, як роса на сонці.

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  4. The dew fell this morning.

    Цього ранку випала роса.

    deDer Tau stammt von heute Morgen.

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  5. There was some dew this morning.

    ruСегодня утром была роса.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc:
Русский
By meaning 1
moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
moisture in the air that settles on plants, etc:

Origin

From Middle English dew, from Old English dēaw (“dew”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauw, fr

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”).

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