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RAIN SHOWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief period of precipitation
Example:
the game was interrupted by a brief shower
Synonyms:
rain shower; shower
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("rain shower" is a kind of...):
rain; rainfall (water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rain shower"):
scattering; sprinkle; sprinkling (a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby)
