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rainier

a. (en-comparativerainy)

WordNet
rainy
  1. adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days" [syn: showery]

  2. marked by rain; "their vacation turned out to be a series of rainy days" [syn: pluvial, pluvious]

  3. [also: rainiest, rainier]

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Gazetteer
Rainier, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 1687
Housing Units (2000): 733
Land area (2000): 1.614728 sq. miles (4.182125 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.012249 sq. miles (2.621712 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.626977 sq. miles (6.803837 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60850
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 46.089883 N, 122.942597 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97048
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rainier, OR
Rainier
Rainier, WA -- U.S. town in Washington
Population (2000): 1492
Housing Units (2000): 551
Land area (2000): 1.616879 sq. miles (4.187697 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.616879 sq. miles (4.187697 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57220
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.890938 N, 122.689619 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98576
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rainier, WA
Rainier
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Rainier

Rainier may refer to the following:

Rainier (name)

The name Rainier ( or ; , a French form of Rainer) may refer to

Given name:

  • Reginar II, Count of Hainaut (890–932), also written Rainier II
  • Rainier, Margrave of Tuscany, Margrave of Tuscany from 1014 to 1027
  • Rainier, Marquess of Montferrat (c. 1084-1135)
  • Saint Rainier (c. 1117–c. 1160), Pisan saint
  • Renier of Montferrat (1162–1183), son-in-law of Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos
  • Several princes of Monaco, all of the House of Grimaldi:
    • Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes (1267–1314)
    • Rainier II, Lord of Monaco (14th century)
    • Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1923–2005)

Surname:

  • Peter Rainier, Jr. (1741–1808), a British naval leader
  • Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986), South African-British composer

Usage examples of "rainier".

I waited for Rainier to join me, I watched the boy escort two young witches across the side street.

He bounced off the chair and came over to stand next to Rainier and me.

At a stoplight, through some trees and off in the distance, I caught a brief glimpse of Rainier -- a smudge of white on the blue horizon.

Looking further southward, I could judge almost precisely where Carole had to have stood to see that particular view of Rainier, towering over me just to the north.

I asked, thinking of Mount Rainier and just how vast the national park was.

I looked up again, we were pulling to a stop at a convenience store in a small town named Elbe, whose main claim to fame was the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad Excursion, a one-and-a-half-hour, fourteen-mile round-trip train ride through the lower-lying foothills surrounding the mountain.

He has to be found very soon - or the official investigation will probably decide that a massive eruption of Mount Rainier is what caused all the destruction.

Rita and Ali, Liz and Dick, Rainier and Grace, Coward, Capote, Warhol.

He was definitely caught between a rock and a hard place---a rock about the size of Gibraltar and a hard place about like Mount Rainier, and no space to move at that.

You will climb the mountains of dream, taller than Rainier, taller than Chomolungma.

He rotated the shuttle one hundred eighty degrees to starboard, slowly, facing in turn the solitary volcanic peaks of Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Mount St.

Mount Rainier, an extraordinarily beautiful volcanic peak some fifty miles from the city, blew up in 1963, but nobody in Seattle is aware of this yet because the weather has been pretty cloudy.

It is a choice town, and we made satisfactory use of the hour allowed us, in roaming it over, though the weather was rainier than necessary.

Murrow, the celebrated CBS newsman, and Kenneth Arnold, a civilian pilot who saw something peculiar near Mount Rainier in the state of Washington on 24 June 1947 and who in a way coined the phrase.

The night was already cooling down, with the sun gone behind the cone of Mount Rainier for more than half an hour.