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Noun [English]

Forms: rainwaters [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English reinwater, from Old English reġnwæter, equivalent to rain + water. Cognate with West Frisian reinwetter, Dutch regenwater, German Regenwasser, Swedish regnvatten. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|reinwater}} Middle English reinwater, {{inh|en|ang|reġnwæter}} Old English reġnwæter, {{af|en|rain|water}} rain + water, {{cog|fy|reinwetter}} West Frisian reinwetter, {{cog|nl|regenwater}} Dutch regenwater, {{cog|de|Regenwasser}} German Regenwasser, {{cog|sv|regnvatten}} Swedish regnvatten Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} rainwater (usually uncountable, plural rainwaters)
  1. Rainfall. Tags: uncountable, usually
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  2. Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Water Translations (water sourced from rain): مِيَاه اَلْأَمْطَار (miyāh al-ʔamṭār) [masculine, plural] (Arabic), дъждовна вода (dǎždovna voda) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 雨水 (yǔshuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), dešťovka [feminine] (Czech), dešťová voda [feminine] (Czech), regnvand [neuter] (Danish), regenwater [neuter] (Dutch), sadevesi (Finnish), eaux de pluie [feminine, plural] (French), auga de choiva [feminine] (Galician), Regenwasser [neuter] (German), esővíz (Hungarian), regnvatn [neuter] (Icelandic), air hujan (Indonesian), acqua piovana [feminine] (Italian), 雨水 (amamizu) (alt: あまみず) (Japanese), 雨水 (usui) (Japanese), 빗물 (binmul) (Korean), 우수 (usu) (Korean), ᦓᧄᧉᦚᦳᧃ (nam²ḟun) (), дождовница (doždovnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), wai ua (Maori), पावसाचे पाणी (pāvsāce pāṇī) [neuter] (Marathi), regnvann [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), reġnwæter [neuter] (Old English), amana (Old Tupi), deszczówka [feminine] (Polish), água da/de chuva [feminine] (Portuguese), дождева́я вода́ (doždevája vodá) [feminine] (Russian), uisge-adhair [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), dažďovica [feminine] (Slovak), dažďová voda [feminine] (Slovak), agua de lluvia (Spanish), agua llovediza [feminine] (Spanish), regnvatten [neuter] (Swedish), чаъс суу (çàs suu) (Tuvan), дощова́ вода́ (doščová vodá) [feminine] (Ukrainian), nước mưa (Vietnamese), רעגן־וואַסער (regn-vaser) [neuter] (Yiddish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rain water Derived forms: rainwater goods

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Alternative forms

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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "word": "agua de lluvia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "agua llovediza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "regnvatten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "tyv",
          "lang": "Tuvan",
          "roman": "çàs suu",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "word": "чаъс суу"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "doščová vodá",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "дощова́ вода́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "word": "nước mưa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "regn-vaser",
          "sense": "water sourced from rain",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "רעגן־וואַסער"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "rain water"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rainwater"
}
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
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    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Indonesian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Lü translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Marathi translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Old English translations",
    "Terms with Old Tupi translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
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    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Tuvan translations",
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    "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "rainwater goods"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "reinwater"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English reinwater",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "reġnwæter"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English reġnwæter",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rain",
        "3": "water"
      },
      "expansion": "rain + water",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "reinwetter"
      },
      "expansion": "West Frisian reinwetter",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "regenwater"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch regenwater",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Regenwasser"
      },
      "expansion": "German Regenwasser",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "regnvatten"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish regnvatten",
      "name": "cog"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English reinwater, from Old English reġnwæter, equivalent to rain + water. Cognate with West Frisian reinwetter, Dutch regenwater, German Regenwasser, Swedish regnvatten.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rainwaters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
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      "expansion": "rainwater (usually uncountable, plural rainwaters)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 1, Joel Kirkland, “Australia's Record Rains Squeeze World Coal Supplies as Scientists Study Climate Pattern”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Rainfall."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Rainfall",
          "rainfall"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 January 18, Paula Deitz, “ISLAND LIVING, ENGLISH STYLE”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rain",
          "rain"
        ],
        [
          "spring",
          "spring"
        ],
        [
          "stream",
          "stream"
        ],
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ],
        [
          "pond",
          "pond"
        ],
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ],
        [
          "sea",
          "sea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "rain water"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "miyāh al-ʔamṭār",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "مِيَاه اَلْأَمْطَار"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dǎždovna voda",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дъждовна вода"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yǔshuǐ",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "雨水"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dešťovka"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dešťová voda"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "regnvand"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "regenwater"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "sadevesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "eaux de pluie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "auga de choiva"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Regenwasser"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "esővíz"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "regnvatn"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "air hujan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acqua piovana"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あまみず",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "amamizu",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "雨水"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "usui",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "雨水"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "binmul",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "빗물"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "usu",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "우수"
    },
    {
      "code": "khb",
      "lang": "Lü",
      "roman": "nam²ḟun",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "ᦓᧄᧉᦚᦳᧃ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "doždovnica",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дождовница"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "wai ua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "pāvsāce pāṇī",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "पावसाचे पाणी"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "regnvann"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "reġnwæter"
    },
    {
      "code": "tpw",
      "lang": "Old Tupi",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "amana"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "deszczówka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "água da/de chuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "doždevája vodá",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дождева́я вода́"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uisge-adhair"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dažďovica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dažďová voda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "agua de lluvia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "agua llovediza"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "regnvatten"
    },
    {
      "code": "tyv",
      "lang": "Tuvan",
      "roman": "çàs suu",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "чаъс суу"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "doščová vodá",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "дощова́ вода́"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "word": "nước mưa"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "regn-vaser",
      "sense": "water sourced from rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "רעגן־וואַסער"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rainwater"
}

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