DROUTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drouth mean? 

• DROUTH (noun)
  The noun DROUTH has 2 senses:

1. a prolonged shortage

2. a shortage of rainfall

  Familiarity information: DROUTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DROUTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prolonged shortage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

drought; drouth

Context example:

when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought

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

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shortage of rainfall

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

drought; drouth

Context example:

farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season

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

dryness; waterlessness; xerotes (the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water))

 Context examples 

They gave as another reason for their defeat the extraordinary state of drouth to which they had been reduced by the dusty nature of their occupation and the reprehensible distance from the scene of their labours of any place of public entertainment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)