Raindrop dictionary definition

raindrop

[-dräp′]

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A raindrop on a blade of grass.

raindrop

noun

a single drop of rain

raindrop

noun

A drop of rain.

raindrop

Noun

(plural raindrops)

A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.

Origin

From Middle English raindrope, from Old English reÄ¡ndropa (â€œdrop of rain, raindropâ€), equivalent to rain +â€Ž drop, Cognate with Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel (â€œraindropâ€), German Regentropfen (â€œraindropâ€), Swedish regndroppe (â€œraindropâ€).

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The first raindrop slammed into the window so hard that she instinctively recoiled.
Large ' raindrop ' beads appear in the glass with a rich gold coloring from the refill sherry hogshead.
YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS COUNT A summer 's day is but a raindrop in the ocean of all things happening, between heaven and earth.
I 'm the first bright blossom you'll see in the spring, The first warm raindrop that April will bring.
By small I mean a drop about the size of, well, a small raindrop perhaps.

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All things are connected with all things throughout the universe, from the insect to the archangel; from the sand-grain to the mountain and the globe; from the dew-drop to the ocean; from the rain-drop to the rainbow; from the pebble on the shore to 'the sun that blazes in the firmament; from the zephyr that sings among the flowers of the field to the ocean that pours its wild bass in the great anthem of nature. Not only are all things connected with all things, but there is a concatenation of events, so that the character and effects of no one event can terminate in itself. As each event owes some portion of its nature to that which preceded it, so it imparts some of its nature to that which succeeds it, and thus perpetuates the blended good or evil of itself and its predecessors. The single event may thus live on in its influence along the line of all the ages, assuming new shapes, or if clothing itself in the drapery of new events, ever marching onward and upward in the continually growing affairs of time. John Lanahan