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Definition of Rain

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Water falling in drops from the clouds; the descent of water from the clouds in drops.

To fall in drops from the clouds, as water; -- used mostly with it for a nominative; as, it rains.

To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes.

To pour or shower down from above, like rain from the clouds.

To bestow in a profuse or abundant manner; as, to rain favors upon a person.

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Rain Quotations

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey Hepburn

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e. e. cummings

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Douglas Adams

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave Barry

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
W. H. Auden

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Billie Holiday

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
Denzel Washington

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Rain Translations

rain in Danish is regn, regne
rain in Dutch is regenen
rain in Finnish is sade, sataa
rain in French is pleuvoir, pleuvois, pluviale, pleuvez, vaser
rain in German is regnen, Regen
rain in Italian is pioggia, agitarsi, piovere
rain in Latin is pluvia
rain in Norwegian is regn
rain in Portuguese is chover, chuva
rain in Spanish is lluvia, llover
rain in Swedish is regn, regna

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