Dictionaries › English

dewdrop

The English word “dewdrop” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A droplet of water formed as dew.
  2. A slow pitch.
  3. A plant of species Dalibarda repens.

Etymology

From Middle English deu drop, dew droppe, dewe droppe, equivalent to dew + drop. Compare Dutch dauwdruppel (“dewdrop”), German Tautropfen (“dewdrop”), Danish dugdråbe (“dewdrop”), Swedish daggdroppe (“dewdrop”), Faroese døggdropi (“dewdrop”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “dewdrop” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.