Verb Please shower before using the pool. Sparks from the machine showered onto the floor of the garage. Rice showered down on the newlyweds as they left the church.
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English shour, from Old English scūr; akin to Old High German scūr shower, storm, Latin caurus northwest wind
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a