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raindrop

noun

rain·​drop ˈrān-ˌdräp How to pronounce raindrop (audio)
Synonyms of raindropnext
: a drop of rain

Examples of raindrop in a Sentence

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On one end is an image of poppies, while the other features a bird and raindrops falling from and into a hand. Sierra Knoch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2025 The first raindrops begin to fall late morning into the early afternoon. Rachael Jay, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2025 His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James). Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 When raindrops hit the floating dielectric film, the water’s incompressibility and high surface tension provide the mechanical strength needed to support the impact. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for raindrop

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of raindrop was before the 12th century

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“Raindrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raindrop. Accessed 7 Dec. 2025.

Kids Definition

raindrop

noun
rain·​drop -ˌdräp How to pronounce raindrop (audio)
: a drop of rain
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