Other forms: raindrops
A raindrop is a single falling bead of water from the clouds. The first raindrops, a raindrop on the glass, raindrops on the roof.
It is not tear-shaped, whatever pictures show: a falling one is round when small and flattens to a bun shape as it grows, and above about five millimetres it breaks apart. They fall at up to about thirty kilometres an hour.
1nounraindropA single falling bead of water from the clouds.
“A big raindrop landed on my nose, and then the storm began.”
raindrop is a drop.
Old English regndropa, rain plus drop, a compound over a thousand years old.
Proto-Germanic
*regnadrupô
Old English
reġndropa
Middle English
rein-drope
English, today
raindrop
From Middle English rein-drope, reyn-drope, reyn drope, from Old English reġndropa, from Proto-Germanic regnadrupô. Equivalent to rain + drop. Cognate with stq Riendruppe, West Frisian reindrip, Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel, German Low German Regendrüpp, German Regentropfen, Swedish regndroppe, Icelandic regndropi.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA