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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere [syn: rain, rainfall]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1854 1. the amount of precipitation usually measured by the depth in inches 2. rain 2a

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a fall of rain. 2 the quantity of rain falling within a given area in a given time.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rainfall Rain"fall`, n. A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. --Hooker.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rainfalls) Rainfall is the amount of rain that falls in a place during a particular period. There have been four years of below average rainfall. N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl

Moby Thesaurus

Scotch mist, blood rain, bogginess, damp, dampness, dewiness, drizzle, evening mist, exudation, fall, flurry, fogginess, gout of rain, humectation, humor, marshiness, mist, mistiness, misty rain, mizzle, moistiness, moistness, moisture, patter, pitter-patter, precipitation, rain, raindrop, raininess, rainwater, sheet of rain, shower, showeriness, soddenness, sogginess, soppiness, splatter, sprinkle, swampiness, unfrozen hydrometeor, wateriness, wet, wetness, wettishness