Rain
The word rain can be singular or plural and a noun or a verb.
Noun
Moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops. Example: the rain had not stopped for days.
- Plural—falls of rain. Example: the plants were washed away by unusually heavy rains.
- Singular—a large or overwhelming quantity of things that fall or descend. Example: he fell under the rain of terror.
Verb
Rain falls. Example: it was beginning to rain.
- literary (of the sky, the clouds, etc.) send down rain. Example: the low sky raining over the tall building
- fall in large or overwhelming quantities. Example: bombs rained down
(adapted and edited from The New Oxford American Dictionary)
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