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rain water

rain water is the alternative form of rainwater.

Meaning of rainwater

Noun

rainwater (usually uncountable, plural rainwaters)

  1. (usually) Rainfall.
    • In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.2011 December 1, Joel Kirkland, “Australia's Record Rains Squeeze World Coal Supplies as Scientists Study Climate Pattern”, in The New York Times
  2. (usually) Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.
    • Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.1987 January 18, Paula Deitz, “ISLAND LIVING, ENGLISH STYLE”, in The New York Times

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What is rain water the alternative form of?
Rain water is the alternative form of rainwater.

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  9. rain-barrel
  10. rain-barrels
  11. rain-check

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