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Definition of Rainy season
1. Noun. One of the two seasons in tropical climates.
Definition of Rainy season
1. Noun. The portion of the year during which rainfall amounts are greatest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainy Season
Literary usage of Rainy season
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"It is difficult, we are told, to realise the contrast between the steppes of
Australia in the dry and in the rainy season. In the dry season the landscape ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In Southern in th&t rainy season which follows the apparent movest of the sun
northward, i.. greater than that which us after his passage south, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"At Zanzibar there is a double rainy season, a stronger in the months of March,
April, ... At the Tanganyika Lake the rainy season begins in September, ..."
4. Extracts from a Journal by Basil Hall (1824)
"The whole rainy season, indeed, is sickly, but more especially so towards the
end, when the rains become less violent and less frequent; while the intense ..."
5. The Lancet (1898)
"three-quarters of those who had it in the early months of 1386 had suffered from
it in the previous rainy season and many of them had had more than one ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The rainy season (called the monsoon) occupies the remaining four months but
differs on the two sides of the country. On the western coast it lasts from ..."
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