drought
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a shortage of rainfall
farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season
Types & categories
- dryness hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a prolonged shortage
when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought
Types & categories
- period hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dryness |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | period |