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RAINFALL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rainfall mean?

• RAINFALL (noun)
The noun RAINFALL has 1 sense:

1. water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere

Familiarity information: RAINFALL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RAINFALL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

rain; rainfall

Hypernyms ("rainfall" 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 "rainfall"):

raindrop (a drop of rain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rainfall"):

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)

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