torrent
Syllables: tor·rentUK/ˈtɒɹənt//ˈtoɹənt/
More pronunciations (2)Fewer pronunciations
torrent noun: a violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
Noun (1)
torrent (plural torrents)
- A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
- Rain fell on the hills in torrents.
- A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
- A large amount or stream of something.
- They endured a torrent of inquiries.
- The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45
Adjective
torrent (comparative more torrent, superlative most torrent)
- Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
- Waves of torrent fire.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
Verb (1)
torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)
- To fall or flow in a torrent; to pour.
- ... through the inflexible rain, each turn in the track revealed a new cascade, torrenting down the steep cliff of the hill. The weather was too wild for me to get to them. In good weather, they wouldn't exist.2016 January 28, Anna Pavord, Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 63
- Outside[,] rain was torrenting down, lightning and thunder heralded the arrival of a summer storm.2024 November 11, Peter D. Thompson, The Connection, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Noun (2)
torrent (plural torrents)
- A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
- I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.
Verb (2)
torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)
- To download in a torrent.
- The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
- They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.2009, Rick Dakan, Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues, page 38
torrent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
torrent in Hindi
- torrent, stream, current
- जलप्रवाह jalapravāh
torrent in Tamil
- விசை நீரோடை
torrent in Marathi
- file transfers
- टॉरेंट ṭŏreṇṭa
torrent in Urdu
- دھارا, سیلاب
More languagesFewer languages
- torrent in Bengali
- সয়লাব śôẏlab
- torrent in Telugu
- టొరెంట్, టోరెంట్, టొరెంటు
- torrent in Malayalam
- കുത്തിയൊഴുക്ക്, ശക്തപ്രവാഹം
- torrent in Kannada
- ಪ್ರವಾಹ, ಹೊನಲು, ಉಕ್ಕಿ ಬರುವ ಧಾರಾಕಾರ ಮಳೆ, ಸುರಿಮಳೆ
- torrent in Punjabi
- ਟੋਰੈਂਟ, ਟੌਰੈਂਟ, ਟੋਰੇਂਟ
- torrent in Gujarati
- ટોરેન્ટ, ટોરન્ટ
- torrent in Odia
- ଟୋରେଣ୍ଟ୍, ଟୋରେନ୍ଟ, ଟୋରେଣ୍ଟ
- torrent in Assamese
- হাৱৰ hawor, টৰেন toren
- torrent in Nepali
- टोरन्ट, टोरेंट, टोरेन्ट
- torrent in Malay
- cegar
- torrent in Persian
- سیلاب seylâb
Examples of torrent in a sentence
- "Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!1841 September 28 (date written), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] Excelsior.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition...
- On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower.1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXI [Uniform ed., p. 278]
- Western civilization has always taught the repression of emotion […] The emotional torrents of opera rebel against this.1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6:
- It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:
Synonyms of torrent
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Forms of torrent
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | torrents |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more torrent |
| superlative | most torrent |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | torrents |
| present participle | torrenting |
| past participle | torrented |
| past | torrented |
Origin of torrent
Borrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of torrēns (“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latin torrēre (“to parch, scorch”).
From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.
Words formed from torrent
Phrases with torrent
Words that rhyme with torrent
Questions about torrent
- What does torrent mean?
- Torrent means a violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
- What is torrent in Hindi?
- Torrent in Hindi is जलप्रवाह (jalapravāh). See Torrent meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use torrent in a sentence?
- "Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior!
- What part of speech is torrent?
- Torrent can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce torrent?
- Torrent is pronounced /ˈtɒɹənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of torrent?
- The plural of torrent is torrents.
Words near torrent in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: torrent (page history and authors); जलप्रवाह (Hindi) (page history and authors); torrent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); torrent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); torrent (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); torrent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); torrent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); torrent (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); torrent (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); torrent (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); torrent (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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