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raincloud

raincloud is the alternative spelling of rain cloud.

Meaning of rain cloud

Noun

rain cloud (plural rain clouds)

  1. A cloud from which rain is falling or may fall.
    • Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214
    Synonyms:
    nimbus, nimbostratus

Forms of raincloud

pluralrainclouds

Origin of raincloud

From rain + cloud.

Questions about raincloud

What is raincloud the alternative spelling of?
Raincloud is the alternative spelling of rain cloud.

Words near raincloud in the dictionary

  1. rainchecking
  2. rainchecks
  3. raincheque
  4. raincheques
  5. rainclothes
  6. raincloud
  7. rainclouds
  8. raincoat
  9. raincoat brigade
  10. raincoated
  11. raincoater

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raincloud (page history and authors); rain cloud (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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