Definitions for rainreɪn

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

rainreɪn(n.)

  1. water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops.

    Category: Meteorology

  2. a rainfall, rainstorm, or shower.

    Category: Meteorology

  3. rains, the rainy season; seasonal rainfall.

    Category: Meteorology

  4. weather marked by steady or frequent rainfall.

    Category: Meteorology

  5. a heavy and continuous descent or inflicting of anything:

    a rain of blows; a rain of vituperation.

  6. (v.i.)(of rain) to fall (usu. used impersonally with it as subject):

    It rained all night.

  7. to fall like rain:

    Tears rained from their eyes.

  8. to send down rain.

  9. (v.t.)to send down as or like rain.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  10. to offer or bestow in great quantity; shower:

    to rain favors upon a person.

  11. rain out, to cancel or postpone because of rain.

    Category: Verb Phrase

Idioms for rain:

  1. rain cats and dogs,to rain very heavily or steadily.

    Category: Idiom

Origin of rain:

bef. 900; (n.) ME rein; OE regn, rēn, c. D, G regen, ON regn, Go rign; (v.) ME reinen, OE regnian

rain′less(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. rain, rainfall(noun)

    water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere

  2. rain, rainwater(noun)

    drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds

  3. rain, pelting(verb)

    anything happening rapidly or in quick successive

    "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"

  4. rain, rain down(verb)

    precipitate as rain

    "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. rain(noun)ɪn

    water that falls from the clouds

    heavy/light rain; We walked home in the rain.

  2. rainɪn

    heavy, prolonged tropical rainfall that happen during a particular season

    The rains had come early that year.

  3. rain(verb)ɪn

    (of water) to fall from the clouds

    It's been raining hard all afternoon.

  4. rainɪn

    stopped because of rain

    The baseball game was rained out.

  5. rainɪn

    rained out

Wiktionary

  1. rain(Noun)

    Condensed water falling from a cloud.

  2. rain(Noun)

    Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise figuratively identifiable with raindrops.

  3. rain(Noun)

    An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.

    A rain of mortar fire fell on our trenches.

  4. rain(Verb)

    To have rain fall from the sky.

    It will rain today.

  5. rain(Verb)

    To fall in large quantities.

    Bombs rained from the sky.

  6. rain(Verb)

    To issue (something) in large quantities.

    The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.

  7. Origin: reyn, rein, from regn, from regnaz (compare West Frisian rein, Dutch regen, German Regen, Danish regn), from pre-Germanic -, from Hreǵ 'to flow' (cf. Latin rigo, Lithuanian rõki 'drizzling rain', Albanian rrjedh 'to flow, drip').

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rain(u)

    reign

  2. Rain(noun)

    water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops

  3. Rain(noun)

    to fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains

  4. Rain(noun)

    to fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes

  5. Rain(verb)

    to pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds

  6. Rain(verb)

    to bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Rain

    Water particles that fall from the ATMOSPHERE.


Translations for rain

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

rain(noun)

water falling from the clouds in liquid drops

We've had a lot of rain today; walking in the rain; We had flooding because of last week's heavy rains.

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