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Photo : Yoshihiro Makino A groovy raindrop chandelier hangs over the dining table.—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 June 2025 In Andronic's portrait of the iconic nebula, the gaseous outer layers look like a raindrop breaking the surface of a vast cosmic pond.—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 June 2025 Those pulses bounce off raindrops, snowflakes, hailstones—what meteorologists collectively call hydrometeors—and back to the dish antenna.—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 30 May 2025 The fossilized rock is covered in dimples from raindrops, hinting at a shower just before the tracks were made—and indicating the amniotes were likely moving on dry land, as some of the paper’s authors write in an article for the Conversation.—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for raindrop
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of raindrop was
before the 12th century
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