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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : reyn |
Phonetic Transcription : reɪn |
Definition of rain
Origin :- Old English regn "rain," from Proto-Germanic *regna- (cf. Old Saxon regan, Old Frisian rein, Middle Dutch reghen, Dutch regen, German regen, Old Norse regn, Gothic rign "rain"), with no certain cognates outside Germanic, unless it is from a presumed PIE *reg- "moist, wet," which may be the source of Latin rigare "to wet, moisten" (cf. irrigate). Rain dance is from 1867; rain date in listings for outdoor events is from 1948. To know enough to come in out of the rain (usually with a negative) is from 1590s. Rainshower is Old English renscur.
- noun downpour of water or other substance
- verb drop water or other substance
- Rain, which we were much in want of, fell lightly most of the day.
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- I am indeed pleased to get this rain at last, as the country is very dry.
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- The country is very dry, and I should think there has not been any rain for several months.
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- We have not had a drop of rain since the light shower on the 4th August.
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- If there was rain, there would be enough water here for a month or more.
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- We are much in want of rain, and thought we should have had some, but the barometer is rising this evening.
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- Trenches were dug round the hut and tent, so that they must have had rain.
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- The weather is heavy and cloudy, and I hope to get some rain shortly.
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- It must be a long while since there has been rain, or it would not have been dry.
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- They had not had any rain, not even the light shower we had this morning.
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Synonyms for rain
- bestow
- bucket
- cat-and-dog weather
- cloudburst
- come down in buckets
- condensation
- deluge
- deposit
- drencher
- drizzle
- fall
- flood
- flurry
- hail
- heavy dew
- lavish
- liquid sunshine
- mist
- monsoon
- patter
- pour
- pouring
- precip
- precipitation
- raindrops
- rainfall
- rainstorm
- sheets
- shower
- showers
- sleet
- spate
- spit
- sprinkle
- sprinkling
- storm
- stream
- sun shower
- torrent
- volley
- wet stuff
- window washer
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