Definitions for Rains

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Rains rain

Spelling: [reyn]

IPA: /reɪn/

Rains is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in Rains (ainrs).

Definitions for Rains

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 Rains

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 Rains

The Viorne, swollen by the rains, flowed on with a dull, continuous sound.

These clouds, spotted over a methane lake, could be the first sign of summer rains on a distant world.

"Explorations for this map made after the rains," he concluded.

The machine, rains said, would record scores of up to 1,000,000 points.

A road of red clay soft from the rains stretched before them.

The atmosphere was stifling as a night in the rains by reason of the steam and the crowd.

A lake may dry up in one region, but a new one can form when rains fill a basin elsewhere.

Always in season, for there were no seasons here, except the rains.

rains said that the problem had came up before and that the engineers were working on it.

They live in humiliating conditions—knee-deep in mud when it rains, unable to go to school or work.