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English

Etymology

From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English d?st (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dust? (“dust”) and *dunst? (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust”).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 f?mus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Homophone: dost

Noun

dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)

1. Fine particles
   1. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
   2. (astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
   3. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
2. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
   • 2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)

     […] 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?

3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

   • For now shall I sleep in the dust.

4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites

     And you may carve a shrine about my dust.

5. (figuratively) Something worthless.
6. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.

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

7. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
8. (colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.

   to raise, or kick up, a dust

9. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)

1. (transitive) To remove dust from.

2. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.

3. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
4. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.

5. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 75:

     He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’

6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
7. To kill or severely disable.

Derived terms

• dust bunny
• dust down
• duster
• dust off

Translations

See also

• vacuum cleaner

Anagrams

• UDTs, duts, stud

Faroese

Noun

dust n (genitive singular dusts, uncountable)

1. dust

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German dûst, from Proto-Germanic *dunst?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

dust n (genitive singular dusts, no plural)

1. dust

   Synonyms: ryk, duft

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• doust, duste, doste, dyste

Etymology

Forms with a long vowel are from Old English d?st, from Proto-Germanic *dunst?. Forms with a short vowel are from Old English *dust, from Proto-Germanic *dust?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dust/, /du?st/

Noun

dust (uncountable)

1. dust, powder
2. dirt, grit
3. (figuratively) iota, modicum

Related terms

• dusten (rare)
• dusty

Descendants

• English: dust
• Scots: dust, dist

References

• “d??st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Back-formation of dustet, from Old Norse dust (dust particle)

Noun

dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

1. (derogatory) dork, moron, fool

Synonyms

• dustemikkel
• tomsing
• tosk
• tufs
• støv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust f or m (definite singular dusta or dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

1. dust (fine, dry particles)

References

• “dust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dust (dust particle), compare with dustete

Noun

dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural dustar, definite plural dustane)

1. (derogatory) dork, moron, fool

Synonyms

• dustemikkel
• tomsing
• tosk
• tufs
• støv

Etymology 2

From Old Norse dust.

Noun

dust f (definite singular dusta, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)

1. dust (fine, dry particles)

References

• “dust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dunst? (“dust, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“vapour, smoke”). Akin to Hindi ???? (dhu??, “smoke”), Middle Dutch dost, donst, duust (Dutch dons, duist), Old High German tunst, dunst (German Dunst), Low German dust, Icelandic dust, Norwegian dust, Danish dyst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?st/

Noun

d?st n

1. dust; powder; mill dust

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: dust, doust
  • English: dust
  • Scots: dust, dist

Old Norse

Noun

dust n

1. dust particle

Descendants

• Icelandic: dust
• Faroese: dust
• Norwegian: dust
• Swedish: dust
• Danish: dyst

References

• dust in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

dust m (genitive singular dust, no plural)

1. dust

Usage notes

• Also used figuratively for corpse.

Synonyms

• duslach
• stùr

Derived terms

• dustach
• dustaig
• dustair

Zazaki

Noun

dust c

1. side; one half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
2. to level

Derived terms

• dustê
• dusta

English

Etymology

From German Ozon, coined 1840 by Christian Friedrich Schönbein, from Ancient Greek ???? (ózon), neuter participle of ??? (óz?, “I smell”), in reference to its pungent odour.

The “fresh air” sense is from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?zo?n/, /???z??n/

Noun

ozone (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O?) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.

   Hypernym: greenhouse gas

2. (Britain, informal) Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
   • 1875, William Crookes, The Chemical News, page 99,

     A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ozone-baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.

   • 1888, L. T. Meade, A. Balfour Symington, Edwin Oliver, Atalanta, Volume 1, page 674,

     To Ramsgate baths she sped, in quest / Of seaweed and ozone ; / For seaweed and ozone were best, / They said, to give her tone.

   • 2007, Robert Douglas, Tales of the Unexpected, Somewhere to Lay My Head, unnumbered page,

     It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone, seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ozone (third-person singular simple present ozones, present participle ozoning, simple past and past participle ozoned)

1. (transitive) To treat with ozone.
   • 1868, Medical and Surgical Reporter (volume 19, page 392)

     Whenever it exists, as it usually does, even where the tide water freshens at the ebb, it seems to have a purifying tendency, probably by ozoning the superincumbent atmosphere.

   • 1997, Robert Sampson, Patricia Hughes, Breaking Out of Environmental Illness

     I worked nonstop to make the house safe. Periodically I ozoned the first-floor bathroom, but it still made us sick.

Further reading

• ozone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “ozone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.z?n/, /?.zon/, /o.zon/

Noun

ozone m (plural ozones)

1. ozone (O₃)

Derived terms

• couche d'ozone

Further reading

• “ozone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).