Dust

/dʌst/ · noun

Meaning

Fine particles..

Definitions by Sense

1. Fine particles.
2. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
3. (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
4. (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
5. The earth as the resting place of the dead.
6. The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
7. (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
8. (figurative) Something worthless.

Example Sentences

[…]once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn’t it?

But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]

For now shall I sleep in the dust.

For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather’d to the glorious saints.

And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.

[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.

‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’

to raise, or kick up, a dust

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Word Forms

• dusts
• dusting
• dusted

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