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Definition of Rainwater
1. Noun. Drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds.
Definition of Rainwater
1. Noun. Rainfall. ¹
2. Noun. Water (for a house etc) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rainwater
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainwater
Literary usage of Rainwater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER H rainwater 1. rainwater has, therefore, more wholesome qualities, because
it is drawn from the lightest and most delicately pure parts of all the ..."
2. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER H rainwater 1. rainwater has, therefore, more wholesome qualities, because
it is drawn from the lightest and most delicately pure parts of all the ..."
3. Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and by Jean Brunhes, Isaiah Bowman, Richard Elwood Dodge, Irville Charles Le Compte (1920)
"... prolonged period of dryness, the roofs and terraces are arranged so as to
catch all the rainwater in cisterns. (Figs. 4 and 5.) FIG. 4. ..."
4. Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies by Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman, Glen Paoletto (1999)
"One of the resources that maintains potential for exploitation is rainwater, as
a renewable natural resource to which we generally have access. ..."
5. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"rainwater has, therefore, more wholesome qualities, because it is drawn from the
lightest and most delicately pure parts of all the springs, and then, ..."
6. Old Cottages & Farm-houses in Surrey by W. Curtis Green (1908)
"... the wooden buckets are now practically a thing of the past. FIG. 103.
rainwater HEAD AT ABBOT'S HOSPITAL, GUILDFORD. ..."
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