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DEWDROP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dewdrop mean?
• DEWDROP (noun)
The noun DEWDROP has 1 sense:
1. a drop of dew
Familiarity information: DEWDROP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A drop of dew
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("dewdrop" is a kind of...):
Context examples
Called attention to J. as being beautifully sleek. D. fondled J. Associations thus awakened, opened floodgates of sorrow. Rush of grief admitted. (Are tears the dewdrops of the heart? M.)
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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