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rainstorms

rainstorms is the plural of rainstorm.

Meaning of rainstorm

Noun

rainstorm (plural rainstorms)

  1. A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
    • Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

Questions about rainstorms

What is rainstorms the plural of?
Rainstorms is the plural of rainstorm.

Words near rainstorms in the dictionary

  1. rainsquall
  2. rainsqualls
  3. rainstick
  4. rainsticks
  5. rainstorm
  6. rainstorms
  7. rainstormy
  8. rainsuit
  9. rainsuits
  10. rainswept
  11. raintight

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