Meaning

3 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

    It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

    Dunst

    тума́нtumán, ды́мкаdýmka, мглаmgla

    туманtuman, серпанокserpanok

  2. (countable)A layer of fine droplets or particles.

    There was an oily mist on the lens.

  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

More definitions
  • a thin fog with condensation near the ground

Examples

65 sentences

  1. The mist is clearing.

    Туман розсіюється. — deniko

    ruТуман рассеивается. — Wezel

    deDer Nebel löst sich auf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. A boat suddenly appeared out of the mist.

    ruВнезапно из тумана выплыла лодка. — Wezzel

    deAus dem Dunst erschien plötzlich ein Schiff. — Espi

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  3. Tom disappeared into the mist.

    ruТом исчез в тумане. — odexed

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  4. Down in the valley a mist like a white feather rose gently into a white cloud, and obscured everything.

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  5. A mist hung over the river.

    ruНад рекой висел туман. — Hellerick

    deEs hing Nebel über dem Fluss. — Esperantostern

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Translations

8 languages
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By meaning 1
water or other liquid finely suspended in air:
Русский
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water or other liquid finely suspended in air:
Deutsch
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water or other liquid finely suspended in air:

Origin

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

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Forms

plural: mists
Singularmist
Pluralmists

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
brume

Word family

27 related words
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Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

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