raindroplet

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noun

A single droplet of rainwater.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounraindroplet (plural raindroplets)

plural raindroplets

  1. A single droplet of rainwater.

    She speaks with her hands, and raindroplets bead on her brow.

    2000, Andrea Hollander Budy, “On High Street”, in Laure-Anne Bosselaar, editor, Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 151
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    The ground rose very slightly. She pressed on and then she ran straight into them. Not one, not two, not ten, but dozens of wood anemones, their green leaves perfect, their white and purple flowers half open and bespattered with shining raindroplets.

    1980, William Horwood, “Siabod”, in Duncton Wood, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 439

    Her hair was webbed by thousands of tiny raindroplets, which sparkled dully in the electric light.

    2000, Blánaid McKinney, “The Gold of Tolosa”, in Big Mouth, London: Phoenix House, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 18

Origin

Blend of raindrop + droplet (in view of the fact that raindrop is attested since Old English). By surface analysis, raindrop + -let or rain + droplet.

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APA

raindroplet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raindroplet

MLA

“raindroplet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raindroplet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “raindroplet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raindroplet.

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