morning rain
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lluvia matutina
- He could see nothing in the early-morning rain and began running away from the clamor, penetrating deeper into the woods.
- the early morning rain
You wake up to the sound of Sunday morning rain is falling Sunday morning rain is falling.
- You wake up to the sound of Sunday morning rain is falling Sunday morning rain is falling.
Examples
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The hard morning rain had tapered off to an incessant drizzle, and that was fine.
Fiction book (1995) -
The early morning rain had made the grass glisten with droplets.
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I love the early morning rain.
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The early morning rain had stopped as I emerged from the hotel.
Fiction book (1999) -
An unusual morning rain had come through and left the ground just barely wet.
Fiction book (2000) -
John drives grim-faced through the morning rain.
Fiction book (2001) -
The farmers huddle under their thatched capes, hats pulled low to protect them from the early morning rains and the chill.
Fiction book (2000) -
After an early morning rain, Sokate strides through her village's terraced millet fields to the same riverbed in which her mother and grandmother searched for chert, a flakeable stone similar to flint.
Academic text (2002) -
I love the early morning rain because it makes everything smell fresh.
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After the morning rain, the flowers bloomed more vibrantly in the garden.
Synonyms
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Water that falls from clouds in small drops
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The amount of rain that falls in a place over time
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A short period of rain that starts suddenly
How Heavy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a simple, compositional modifier: 'morning' specifies the time and 'rain' names the phenomenon, so the meaning 'rain that falls during the morning hours' is directly derivable from the constituents. This kind of time + event construction is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English noun modification, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase morning rain comes from the simple image of rain falling in the morning. So it was used to describe a wet start to the day and today it means 'rain that falls during the morning hours'.