DEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dew mean? 

• DEW (noun)
  The noun DEW has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DEW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

in the morning the grass was wet with dew

Hypernyms ("dew" is a kind of...):

condensate; condensation (atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold)

Derivation:

dewy (wet with dew)

 Context examples 

The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My clothes were all sodden with dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded thumb.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked at him with melting eyes, and he, too, seemed all dew and melting.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So she poured all the vinegar down; and the thieves said, “What a heavy dew there is!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And she was so much the woman, clinging and appealing, sunshine and dew to my manhood, rooting it deeper and sending through it the sap of a new strength.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her knowledge of love was purely theoretical, and she conceived of it as lambent flame, gentle as the fall of dew or the ripple of quiet water, and cool as the velvet-dark of summer nights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Mr. Brooke didn't even say, Thank you, but as he stooped for the unromantic tool, he kissed his little bride behind the folding door, with a look that made Aunt March whisk out her pocket handkerchief with a sudden dew in her sharp old eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My shirt and trousers, stained with heat, dew, grass, and the Kentish soil on which I had slept—and torn besides—might have frightened the birds from my aunt's garden, as I stood at the gate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)