Taxis are few and far between during a rainstorm.
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Rainstorm
//ˈɹeɪnstɔːm//
Synonyms for "rainstorm" (39 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (19)
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6 entriesTranslations
38 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄμβρος noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Bulgarian
1 entries- поро́й noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Catalan
1 entries- tempesta noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 暴風雨 /暴风雨 noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Esperanto
1 entries- pluvego noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Estonian
1 entries- paduvihm noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Finnish
1 entries- rankkasade noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
French
3 entries- averse noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- déluge noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- pluie torrentielle noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Galician
3 entries- ballón noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- invernada noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- temporal noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
German
1 entries- Regensturm noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Hungarian
2 entries- felhőszakadás noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- zivatar noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Italian
1 entries- temporale noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Japanese
2 entries- 暴風雨 noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- 荒れ noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Korean
1 entries- 폭풍우 noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Malay
1 entries- hujan ribut noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Māori
2 entries- marangai noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- māwake pā roa noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Portuguese
1 entries- temporal noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Russian
3 entries- ли́вень с урага́ном noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- ли́вневый дождь noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- проливно́й дождь noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Spanish
4 entries- manga de agua noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- tormenta lluvial noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- tormenta pluvial noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- turbión noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Tagalog
2 entries- buraska noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
- ulang-bagyo noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Thai
1 entries- พายุฝน noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Tibetan
1 entries- རླུང་འཚུབ noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Turkish
1 entries- yağmur fırtınası noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎂𐎌𐎎 noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mưa bão noun (storm characterized by substantial rainfall)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
This is quite a rainstorm.
Source: tatoeba (2985423)
I got caught in a rainstorm.
Source: tatoeba (5667688)
We got caught in a rainstorm.
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