English
Image:Here_comes_rain_again.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Raindrops

Etymology
Compound of rain and drop, attested in Old English (regndropa|reġndropa, rendropa|r�ndropa).

Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation|UK) enPR|r�nʹdr�p, IPA|/�reɪndr�p/, SAMPA|/'reIndrQp/
(General American|US) enPR|r�nʹdr�p, IPA|/�reɪndr�p/, SAMPA|/'reIndrAp/

Noun
en-noun

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

#:It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries � John Muir, "s:The Grand Cañon of the Colorado|The Grand Cañon of the Colorado."
#:Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head � words by Hal David, music by Burt Bacharach; from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Translations

Chinese: �滴(yŭ dī)
Dutch: regendruppel m
Esperanto: pluvero
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