rains

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪnz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪnz
• Homophones: reigns, reins

rains

1. plural of rain

rains pl (plural only)

1. A rainy season; monsoon

   The rains came early this year.

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:

     The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.

rains

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rain

• Nairs, Nasir, Risan, arnis, naris, nasri, ranis, sarin, siRNA, sirna