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rains en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ɹeɪnz/
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Meanings

1. (plural, plural-only) A rainy season; monsoon
   • The rains came early this year.
   • The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next. 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:
2. (form-of, plural) plural of rain
   form of rain

Deriveds

plum rains

Translations (4)

te వర్షాలు (rainy season) · sl deževje (rainy season) · sv regn (rainy season) · te వానలు (rainy season)

rains en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ɹeɪnz/
• (UK) audio

Meanings

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of rain
   form of rain