monsoon

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mon·soon /mɒnˈsuːn $ mɑːn-/ noun [countable]  1. [usually singular]DNHEM the season, from about April to October, when it rains a lot in India and other southern Asian countries 〔印度等南亚国家的〕季风季节，雨季2. DNHEMthe heavy rain that falls during the monsoon, or the wind that brings the rain 季风雨；季风，季候风► see thesaurus at rain

Examples from the Corpus

monsoon• But trips home for Arizona firefighters this summer promise to be as rare as a monsoon rain on Memorial Day.• During our interview, a monsoon rain was drenching his small, 1920s house in Sam Hughes.• Snow was falling as steadily as the apricot blossom in the first monsoon storm.• This was the end of the wet season, and he sheltered in doorways from the brief storms of the northeast monsoon.• The former is extremely sensitive to orbital parameters, whereas the latter depends greatly on the nature of monsoons.• But then, during the monsoon of 1661, she made her fatal mistake.• The monsoon rains broke early that year and with exceptional force.• No tropical monsoon could stop them.Origin monsoon (1500-1600) Early Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese monçao, from Arabic mawsim “time, season”

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monsoon
mon‧soon /mɒnˈsuːn $ mɑːn-/ noun [countable]1. [usually singular] the season, from about April to October, when it rains a lot in India and other southern Asian countries
2. the heavy rain that falls during the monsoon, or the wind that brings the rain
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ rain noun [uncountable] water that falls in small drops from clouds in the sky: The rain has stopped at last. | There had been heavy rain during the night.
   ▪ drizzle noun [uncountable] light rain with very small drops of water: A light drizzle was falling as I left the house.
   ▪ shower noun [countable] a short period of rain that can be heavy or light: More heavy showers are forecast for tonight. | a light shower of rain
   ▪ downpour noun [countable usually singular] a short period of very heavy rain that starts suddenly: A sudden downpour sent us running for shelter. | a torrential downpour
   ▪ hail noun [uncountable] frozen rain that falls in the form of hailstones (=small balls of ice): The hail and high winds have destroyed many of the county’s crops.
   ▪ sleet noun [uncountable] a mixture of snow and rain: The rain had turned to sleet | Sleet and snow fell.
   ▪ the rains noun [plural] heavy rain that falls during a particular period in the year in tropical countries: The farmers are waiting for the rains to come.
   ▪ monsoon noun [countable ] the heavy rain that falls between April and October in India and other southern Asian countries: The monsoon is late this year. | the monsoon season

mon·soonBrE /ˌmɒnˈsuːn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmɑːnˈsuːn/ 🔊 nouna period of heavy rain in summer in S Asia; the rain that falls during this period （南亚地区的）雨季，雨季的降雨a wind in S Asia that blows from the south-west in summer, bringing rain, and the north-east in winter 季风，季节风（盛行于南亚地区，夏季刮西南风，带来雨水，冬季刮东北风）

downpour, drought, flash flood, monsoon, precipitation, puddle, rain, shelter, shower, squall