rain cloud
See also: raincloud
English
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Noun
rain cloud (plural rain clouds)
- A cloud from which rain is falling or may fall.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 214:
- Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
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Synonyms
- (cloud from which rain is falling): nimbus
Translations
cloud from which rain is falling
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