Usually means: Heavy rainfall, often with thunder.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word rainstorm:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. rainstorm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rainstorm: Merriam-Webster
  3. rainstorm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rainstorm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rainstorm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rainstorm: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rainstorm, rainstorm: Wordnik
  8. rainstorm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rainstorm: Wiktionary
  10. rainstorm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rainstorm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rainstorm: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rainstorm: Dictionary.com
  14. rainstorm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rainstorm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. rainstorm: Rhymezone
  17. rainstorm: FreeDictionary.org
  18. rainstorm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. rainstorm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rainstorm: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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noun:  A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.

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