raindrop

[reyn-drop]

a drop of rain.

Nearby words

before 1000; Middle English rein-drop(e); Old English regndropa; see rain, drop

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The raindrop which falls from the cloud cannot tell upon what plant it drops: there is a quickening power in it, but for what?
Christian Gellert's Last Christmas|Berthold Auerbach
With the raindrop the clue she had been seeking had come to her.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911|Various
Raindrop impressions and sun cracks show that the mud from time to time was exposed to rains and the drying action of the air.
Glacier National Park [Montana]|United States Dept. of the Interior
A raindrop seems a common thing, but cast in dramatic form it becomes of rare charm.
The Reconstructed School|Francis B. Pearson

If we derive his name from the same root as ‘ind-u,’ raindrop, then ‘his starting-point was the rain’ (i. 131).
Modern Mythology|Andrew Lang

Word Origin and History for raindrop

Old English rendropa; see rain (n.) + drop (n.).