downpour

English

Etymology

From down- +‎ pour.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /daʊn.pɔː(ɹ)/ SAMPA: /daUn.pO:(r)/

Noun

downpour (plural downpours)

1. A heavy rain.

   They got caught in a downpour without an umbrella and came back soaked.

Synonyms

• cloudburst
• deluge
• rain
• rainstorm
• storm
• wet
• torrent
• monsoon
• inundation

Related terms

• rain cats and dogs

Translations

heavy rain

Arabic: وابل (ar) (waabil) m., مطر غزير (ar) (máTar ghaziir) m., شؤبوب (ar) (shu'buub) m. Armenian: տարափ (hy) (tarap’) Bulgarian: порой (bg) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 大雨 (cmn) (dàyǔ), 傾盆大雨 (cmn), 倾盆大雨 (cmn) (qīngpéndàyǔ) Croatian: jaka kiša (hr) f., pljusak (hr) m. Finnish: kaatosade (fi), rankkasade (fi) French: trombe (fr) German: Regenguss (de) m.

Italian: acquazzone (it) m. Japanese: 大雨 (ja) (おおあめ, ōame), 土砂降り (ja) (どしゃぶり, doshaburi) Old Prussian: aglā Polish: ulewa (pl) f. Portuguese: temporal (pt) Russian: ливень (ru) (líven') m. Spanish: chaparrón (es) m., aguacero (es) Turkish: sağanak (tr) Ukrainian: злива (uk) (zlýva) f.

Verb

downpour (third-person singular simple present downpours, present participle downpouring, simple past and past participle downpoured)

1. (intransitive) To pour down; rain heavily.
   • 2002, Patricia Koretchuk, Chasing the comet: a Scottish-Canadian life - Page 211:

     It started to downpour, so Billy and I made our way back to our house, with Scotty following—or so I thought.

Derived terms

• downpouring