dews
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English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːz
Noun
dews
- (archaic or poetic) plural of dew
- 1837 January 7, Colonel Sykes, “The British Assocation. Seventh Meeting: Liverpool”, in The Literary gazette and journal of the belles lettres, arts, sciences, &c[1], number 1042, W.A. Scripps, page 606:
- This is followed by a deluge of rain for an hour or two. Dews are very copious,– fogs little known. The climate is very salubrious.
Usage notes
Although a countable sense of dew is still used, the plural form is no longer in common usage.
Verb
dews
- third-person singular simple present indicative of dew
Anagrams
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
dews f (Arabic spelling دەوس)
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “dews”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 145
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