Other forms: droughts
A drought is a long period with no rain, when fields dry out and crack. A severe drought, drought conditions, the drought broke.
It is pronounced drowt. Definitions differ by country and by purpose — a meteorological drought is about rainfall, a hydrological one about reservoirs, and an agricultural one about soil moisture, and a place can be in one and not the others. Figuratively, a drought is a long absence of anything wanted: a goal drought, a drought of good news. Note drought-resistant, and that drought and dry are the same root.
1noundroughtA long period with no rain.
“The drought dried up the rivers, and farmers watched their crops die.”
2nounabsenceA long absence of something wanted.
“He ended a goal drought of about eleven matches.”
drought is a period of dryness.
Old English drugath is built from the root of dry plus the -th ending that makes nouns of adjectives — the same ending as in length and warmth. A drought is literally dryness.
Old English
drūgaþ
Middle English
droughte
English, today
drought
From Middle English droughte, droghte, drouȝte, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. by surface analysis, en + dry + t.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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