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Definition of Rain
Rain

Reign.

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.
Frederick Douglass

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

I like rain, actually.
Bill Rodgers

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

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

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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