rains
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See also: Rains
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹeɪnz/
Audio (US, female voice): (file) Audio (UK, male voice): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪnz
- Homophones: reigns, reins
Noun
[edit]rains
Noun
[edit]rains pl (plural only)
- A rainy season; monsoon
- The rains came early this year.
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:
- 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.
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[edit]Verb
[edit]rains
- third-person singular simple present indicative of rain
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