rainy season
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1.5
- noun
- Australian
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temporada de lluvias
- The rainy season usually brings heavy downpours that can last for days.
- end of the rainy season
- beginning of the rainy season
- crops during the rainy season
So it sounds like you've had a quite rainy season in terms of I've had a lot of work rainy season, which is great.
- So it sounds like you've had a quite rainy season in terms of I've had a lot of work rainy season, which is great.
Examples
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The worst time of year is the rainy season from June through October, when rain floods the salt marsh.
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In the middle of the rainy season, these plains are mostly underwater.
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So the rainy season is in June, July and August.
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We have a number of free rooms now with the rainy season coming up.
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Hey, when does the rainy season start?
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It's the beginning of the rainy season.
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Only 41 percent treated water during the rainy season, and only 11 percent treated water during the dry season.
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During the rainy season, April-November, the salinity is probably much lower in the lagoons.
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The agricultural cycles of the Senegambia required major labor inputs only during the rainy season, the period of active cultivation.
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Andokope's homes consist of mud bricks, but the rainy season forces villagers to rebuild their walls every few years.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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4.0
A seasonal wind in southern Asia that brings heavy rain and causes a long rainy season
Antonyms
How Rainy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'rainy' (characterized by rain) + 'season' (a period) yields a period characterized by heavy rain. This adjective+noun combination is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'temporada de lluvias') and follows normal English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Rainy season comes from the simple idea that some months bring a lot more rain. The words rainy (wet weather) and season (part of the year) create the picture of months when heavy rain falls, so it means 'the time of year when most rain falls'.