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downpour

/ˈdaʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/

downpour noun: a heavy fall of rain.

downpour: a heavy fall of rain
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Noun

downpour (plural downpours)

  1. A heavy fall of rain.
    • They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.
    • I left Inverness on a Saturday afternoon in July in a steady downpour of rain.1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14

Verb

downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)

  1. (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
    • Bank-notes fluttered down and lay about in all directions, relays of sovereigns rolled away like so much dross, bonds and scrip for thousands and tens of thousands clogged the downpouring stream of jewellery and unset gems.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
    • It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211

downpour meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

downpour in Tamil

பெருமழை, கனத்த மழை

downpour in Urdu

موسلا دھار بارش

downpour in Malayalam

കനത്ത മഴ, മാരിചൊരിച്ചിൽ, അതിവർഷം, പേമാരി

downpour in Kannada

ಸುರಿಮಳೆ, ಜಡಿಮಳೆ, ಜಡಿವಳೆ, ಜಿಡಿಮಳೆ, ಸೋನೆವಳೆ, ಸೋನೆಮಳೆ
More languagesFewer languages
downpour in Arabic
وَابِل wābil, مَطَر غَزِير maṭar ḡazīr, شُؤْبُوب šuʔbūb, هُطُول huṭūl
downpour in Malay
hujan lebat
downpour in Indonesian
hujan lebat
downpour in Vietnamese
mưa rào

Examples of downpour in a sentence

  • The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land.
  • His soddenness after being caught in the downpour argued against going out until he had dried out.
  • As the downpour began, I joined the other shelterers under the tree.

All 19 example sentences with downpour

Synonyms of downpour

Forms of downpour

Noun
pluraldownpours
Verb
third-person singular presentdownpours
present participledownpouring
past participledownpoured
pastdownpoured

Plural of downpour: downpours

Origin of downpour

From down- + pour. Compare typologically Czech liják, Polish ulewa, Slovene naliv, Russian ли́вень (lívenʹ) (akin to лить (litʹ)).

Words formed from downpour

Questions about downpour

What does downpour mean?
Downpour means a heavy fall of rain.
What is downpour in Tamil?
Downpour in Tamil is பெருமழை, கனத்த மழை. See Downpour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is downpour?
Downpour can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce downpour?
Downpour is pronounced /ˈdaʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of downpour?
The plural of downpour is downpours.

Words near downpour in the dictionary

  1. downplays
  2. downpointer
  3. downpointers
  4. downposit
  5. downposits
  6. downpour
  7. downpoured
  8. downpouring
  9. downpourings
  10. downpours
  11. downpress

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: downpour (page history and authors); downpour (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); downpour (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); downpour (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); downpour (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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