RAINSTORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rainstorm mean? 

• RAINSTORM (noun)
  The noun RAINSTORM has 1 sense:

1. a storm with rain

  Familiarity information: RAINSTORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAINSTORM (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)

 Context examples 

However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)