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RAIN SHOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rain shower mean?
• RAIN SHOWER (noun)
The noun RAIN SHOWER has 1 sense:
1. a brief period of precipitation
Familiarity information: RAIN SHOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brief period of precipitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
rain shower; shower
Context example:
the game was interrupted by a brief shower
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)
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