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rainier

rainier is the comparative form of rainy.

Meaning of rainy

Adjective

rainy (comparative rainier, superlative rainiest)

  1. Pouring with rain; wet; showery
    • Due to the rainy weather, we decided not to play in the park.

Proper noun capitalized: Rainier

Rainier (countable and uncountable, plural Rainiers)

  1. A surname from French.
  2. A city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States.
  3. A city in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
  4. A hamlet in the County of Newell, Alberta, Canada.

Noun capitalized: Rainier

Rainier (plural Rainiers)

  1. A hybrid cherry cultivar, sweet with a thin skin and thick creamy-yellow flesh.

Forms of rainier

Proper noun
pluralRainiers
Noun
pluralRainiers

Origin of rainier

Borrowed from French Rainier. The cherry was named after Mount Rainier.

Words formed from rainier

Questions about rainier

What does rainier mean?
Rainier means a surname from French.
What is rainier the comparative form of?
Rainier is the comparative form of rainy.
What part of speech is rainier?
Rainier can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near rainier in the dictionary

  1. raingutters
  2. Rainham
  3. rainhat
  4. rainhats
  5. Rainhill
  6. rainier
  7. Rainiers
  8. rainiest
  9. rainified
  10. rainily
  11. rainin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rainier (page history and authors); Rainier (page history and authors); rainy (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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