Definition of Cloudburst

1. Noun. A heavy rain.

Exact synonyms: Deluge, Downpour, Pelter, Soaker, Torrent, Waterspout
Generic synonyms: Rain, Rainfall
Derivative terms: Deluge, Deluge, Pelt, Soak, Torrential

Definition of Cloudburst

1. n. A sudden copious rainfall, as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.

Definition of Cloudburst

1. Noun. A sudden heavy rainstorm. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloudburst

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloudburst

cloud over
cloud point
cloud points
cloud seeder
cloud seeding
cloud species
cloud street
cloud streets
cloud up
cloudage
cloudages
cloudbank
cloudbanks
cloudberries
cloudberry
cloudburst (current term)
cloudbursts
cloudbust
cloudbuster
cloudbusters
cloudbusting
cloudcapt
cloudcuckooland
clouded
clouded leopard
clouded leopards
clouded over
clouded yellow
clouded yellows
cloudedly

Literary usage of Cloudburst

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth (1915)
"cloudburst It is the American tendency to exaggerate. We call every snowstorm a blizzard, every breeze a gale, every shower a cloudburst. ..."

2. The American Date Book: A Hand-book of Reference Relating to the United by William Edgar Simonds (1902)
"31, Utah, cloudburst near Chalk Creek. 1877, Sept. 12, Colorado, cloudburst in Colorado desert destroys 400 feet of railroad track; Nov. ..."

3. The Irrigation Age by American Irrigation Federation (1896)
"There is somewhere a subsoil of some tight material that stops the alkali as it is carried down by the water from some occasional cloudburst or unusual rain ..."

4. The End of an Era by John Sergeant Wise (1899)
"CHAPTER XI THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM — THE cloudburst THE proverb that a calm'precedes a storm was never better illustrated than in the peaceful days of the ..."

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