RAINSTORM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storm with rain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("rainstorm" is a kind of...):

storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)

rain; rainfall (water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rainstorm"):

equinoctial storm; line storm (a violent rainstorm near the time of an equinox)

thundershower (a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning)

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