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RAINSTORM
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I. (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)
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