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duster

/ˈdʌstə/US/ˈdʌstɚ/

duster noun: an object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.

Noun

duster (plural dusters)

  1. An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
  2. Someone who dusts.
  3. A loose-fitting long coat.
  4. A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
  5. (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
  6. (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
  7. (informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
  8. (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
    • Near-synonym: housedress
    Synonyms:
    housedress
  9. A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
  10. A high pitch toward the batter.
  11. A duststorm.
    • Near-synonyms: sandstorm (broadly synonymous), haboob
    Synonyms:
    sandstorm, haboob

Proper noun capitalized: Duster

Duster

  1. A surname.

duster meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog

duster in Tamil

அழிப்பான்

duster in Urdu

جھاڑن, صافی

duster in Malayalam

പൊടി തുടയ്ക്കുന്ന തുണി, ബ്രഷ്, പൊടി തുടയ്ക്കുന്നയാൾ, ചൂല്

duster in Tagalog

object used for dusting
pamalis
More languagesFewer languages
duster in Arabic
مِمْسَحَة mimsaḥa, مِمْسَح mimsaḥ

Examples of duster in a sentence

  • This cloth is too foul to use as a duster.
  • The filter-feeding feather duster worms produce fantastic flower-like crowns of feathery appendages.
  • Tell me, I pray, What has your housemaiden tidied away, She of the duster and broom?

All 12 example sentences with duster

Synonyms of duster

Forms of duster

pluraldusters

Plural of duster: dusters

Origin of duster

From dust + -er.

Words formed from duster

Phrases with duster

Questions about duster

What does duster mean?
Duster means an object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
What is duster in Tamil?
Duster in Tamil is அழிப்பான். See Duster meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is duster?
Duster can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce duster?
Duster is pronounced /ˈdʌstɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of duster?
The plural of duster is dusters.

Words near duster in the dictionary

  1. dusted someone's jacket
  2. dusted up
  3. dustee
  4. dustees
  5. Dusten
  6. duster
  7. dusters
  8. dustfall
  9. dustfalls
  10. dustfree
  11. dustful

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Adapted from Wiktionary: duster (page history and authors); Duster (page history and authors); duster (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); duster (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); duster (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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