Definitions for rain

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Spelling: [reyn]

IPA: /reɪn/

Rain is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in rain (ainr).

Definitions for rain

noun

1. water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
2. a rainfall, rainstorm, or shower:
3. rains, the rainy season; seasonal rainfall, as in India.
4. weather marked by steady or frequent rainfall:
5. a heavy and continuous descent or inflicting of anything:

Idioms

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

Verb phrases

1. rain out, to cause, by raining, the cancellation or postponement of a sports event, performance, or the like:

verb (used with object)

1. to send down in great quantities, as small pieces or objects:
2. to offer, bestow, or give in great quantity:
3. to deal, hurl, fire, etc., repeatedly:

verb (used without object)

1. (of rain) to fall (usually used impersonally with it as subject):
2. to fall like rain:
3. to send down rain:

Origin of rain

before 900; (noun) Middle English rein; Old English regn, rēn, cognate with Dutch, German regen, Old Norse regn, Gothic rign; (v.) Middle English reinen, Old English regnian

Examples for rain

As soon as we unloaded, it commenced to rain, and kept on steadily till midnight.

“Firestorms Will rain on the Headquarters of War,” the title threatened.

Hordes of celebrants, swept by rain, surged over the five-year-old Brooklyn Bridge.

rain, which we were much in want of, fell lightly most of the day.

Maybe he had been at a card game—wherever he was, it was late and he was speeding in the rain.

I am indeed pleased to get this rain at last, as the country is very dry.

On Roles Murray Turned Down: Tom Cruise in rain Man: “Something about rain Man.”

We are much in want of rain, and thought we should have had some, but the barometer is rising this evening.

He walked down to the beach anyway, in the rain, and went for a long swim.

The country is very dry, and I should think there has not been any rain for several months.