dust – English noun declension

English noun forms of dust

Noun: dust
Singulardust
Pluraldusts

Sample Sentences

  • There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator. [2022 September 7, “East-West track laying heads westwards”, in RAIL, number 965, page 37, photo caption:]
  • Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness. [2020 June 29, Paun Rincon, “Betelgeuse: Nearby ‘supernova’ star’s dimming explained”, in BBC News:]
  • to touch a dust of England’s ground [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • […]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? [2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England, page 150:]
  • 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; […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:]
  • For now shall I sleep in the dust. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:21:]
  • 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. [1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 62:]
  • And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:]
  • [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 2:8:]
  • ‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’ [1852, George Colvocoresses, Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition:]
  • to raise, or kick up, a dust

Etymology

1. From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
2. Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down. See: Middle English Nouns 'dust', Swedish Nouns 'dust', Icelandic Nouns 'dust', Latin Nouns 'fūmus', Swedish Nouns 'dun', Icelandic Nouns 'dúnn'.

Verbs referencing "dust"

Latin Nouns fumus, German Nouns Dunst, Irish Nouns dusta, Russian Nouns дуст.