Noun: raindrop
| Singular | raindrop |
| Plural | raindrops |
Sample Sentences
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It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries. [1902, John Muir, The Grand Cañon of the Colorado:]
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1969, Hal David (lyricist), “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”.
Nouns inflected like raindrop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English rein-drope, reyn-drope, reyn drope, from Old English reġndropa, from Proto-Germanic *regnadrupô. Equivalent to rain + drop. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Riendruppe, West Frisian reindrip, Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel, German Low German Regendrüpp, German Regentropfen, Swedish regndroppe, Icelandic regndropi. See: Middle English Nouns '
rein-drope', Old English Nouns '
reġndropa', German Nouns '
Regentropfen', Swedish Nouns '
regndroppe', Icelandic Nouns '
regndropi'.