RAIN
Dictionary entry overview: What does rain mean?
• RAIN (noun)
The noun RAIN has 3 senses:
1. water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
2. drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
3. anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
Familiarity information: RAIN used as a noun is uncommon.
• RAIN (verb)
The verb RAIN has 1 sense:
1. precipitate as rain
Familiarity information: RAIN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RAIN (noun)
Meaning:
Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
rain; rainfall
Hypernyms ("rain" is a kind of...):
downfall; precipitation (the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist))
Meronyms (parts of "rain"):
raindrop (a drop of rain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rain"):
monsoon (any wind that changes direction with the seasons)
rainstorm (a storm with rain)
cloudburst; deluge; downpour; pelter; soaker; torrent; waterspout (a heavy rain)
drizzle; mizzle (very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower)
rain shower; shower (a brief period of precipitation)
Meaning:
Drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
rainwater; rain
Hypernyms ("rain" is a kind of...):
fresh water; freshwater (water that is not salty)
Meaning:
Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
pelting; rain
Context examples:
a rain of bullets / a pelting of insults
Hypernyms ("rain" is a kind of...):
chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness (a following of one thing after another in time)
• RAIN (verb)
Meaning:
Precipitate as rain
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
rain; rain down
Context example:
If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding
Hypernyms (to "rain" is one way to...):
come down; fall; precipitate (fall from clouds)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rain"):
drizzle; mizzle (rain lightly)
shower; shower down (rain abundantly)
patter; pitter-patter; spatter; spit; sprinkle (rain gently)
pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream (rain heavily)
Sentence frames:
It is ----ing
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
It was raining all day long
