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- [duhst]
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- /dʌst/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [duhst]
- /dʌst/
Definitions of dust word
- noun dust earth or other matter in fine, dry particles. 1
- noun dust a cloud of finely powdered earth or other matter in the air. 1
- noun dust any finely powdered substance, as sawdust. 1
- noun dust the ground; the earth's surface. 1
- noun dust the substance to which something, as the dead human body, is ultimately reduced by disintegration or decay; earthly remains. 1
- noun dust British. ashes, refuse, etc. junk1 (def 1). 1
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Origin of dust
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English dūst; cognate with German Dunst vapor
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Dust
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
dust popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
dust usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for dust
verb dust
- sift — to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
- spray — a single, slender shoot, twig, or branch with its leaves, flowers, or berries.
- scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
- dredge — Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
- spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
noun dust
- dirt — Design In Real Time
- sand — George [jawrj;; French zhawrzh] /dʒɔrdʒ;; French ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), (Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant) 1804–76, French novelist.
- earth — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- soil — the act or fact of soiling.
- filth — offensive or disgusting dirt or refuse; foul matter: the filth dumped into our rivers.
adjective dust
- hazel — a female given name.
- umber — an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
- mahogany — any of several tropical American trees of the genus Swietenia, especially S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, yielding hard, reddish-brown wood used for making furniture.
- puce — of a dark or brownish purple.
- russet — yellowish brown, light brown, or reddish brown.
Antonyms for dust
verb dust
noun dust
- cleanliness — Cleanliness is the degree to which people keep themselves and their surroundings clean.
- purity — the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc.: the purity of drinking water.
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