rainfall
rainfall noun: the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.
Noun
rainfall (countable and uncountable, plural rainfalls)
- The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
- The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain.
rainfall meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rainfall in Hindi
- meteorology: amount of rain
- वर्षा varṣā
rainfall in Tamil
- மழைப் பெய்யளவு, மழைப் பொழிவு, மழைப்பெய்யளவு, மழைப்பொழிவு, மழை அளவு, மழை வீழ்ச்சி
rainfall in Urdu
- rainfall
- مینہ mẽh
- rainfall, monsoon
- بارش bāriś
rainfall in Bengali
- rainfall, rain
- বর্ষণ borśon
- rainfall
- বারিধারা baridhara
More languagesFewer languages
- rainfall in Telugu
- వర్షపాతము varṣapātamu
- rainfall in Kannada
- ಪರ್ಜನ್ಯ parjanya, ಮಳೆಸುರಿತ maḷesurita, ಮಳೆಯಳತೆ maḷeyaḷate
- rainfall in Punjabi
- ਵਰਖਾ, ਮੀਂਹ ਪੈਣਾ
- rainfall in Gujarati
- વૃષ્ટિ vŕṣṭi, બારિશ bāriś
- rainfall in Vietnamese
- lượng mưa
Examples of rainfall in a sentence
- The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall.
- The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
- After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
Forms of rainfall
| plural | rainfalls |
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Origin of rainfall
From rain + fall.
Words formed from rainfall
- effective rainfall
- excessive rainfall
- excess rainfall
- initial rainfall
- inversion of rainfall
- orographic rainfall
- palaeorainfall
- paleorainfall
- point rainfall
- rainfall component
- rainfall distribution
- rainfall duration
- rainfall effectiveness
- rainfall excess
- rainfall frequency
- rainfall intensity
- rainfall intensity area curve
- rainfall intensity-duration curve
- rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curve
- rainfall intensity frequency
- rainfall intensity pattern
- rainfall intensity return period
- rainfall loss
- rainfall rate
- rainfall regime
- rainfall station
- rainfallwise
- rate-of-rainfall gauge
- residual rainfall
- Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Questions about rainfall
- What does rainfall mean?
- Rainfall means the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.
- What is rainfall in Hindi?
- Rainfall in Hindi is वर्षा (varṣā). See Rainfall meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rainfall?
- Rainfall is a noun.
- What is the plural of rainfall?
- The plural of rainfall is rainfalls.
Words near rainfall in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rainfall (page history and authors); rainfall (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بارش (Urdu) (page history and authors); বর্ষণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); rainfall (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); બારિશ (Gujarati) (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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