Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mist or exceedingly fine rain which falls from a cloudless sky, a phenomenon not unusual in tropical climates.
Wiktionary
- n. Light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Meteorol.) A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset.
Etymologies
- From French serein (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sabastiano, le célibat d'été est une malédiction dans la mesure où, les beaux jours arrivant, les couples les couples bobo atteignent le summum de l'arrogance se baladent main dans la main avec un air encore plus serein et amoureux qu'en hiver, par exemple.”
“Il ne faut appeler aucun ordre si ce n'est en tems clair et serein.”
“L'air m'en seroit plus doux et le ciel plus serein”
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2)
“Essayer notre nouveau player Medvedev, un président "serein et décontracté”
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“La façon dont Drew est penchée vers eux, son air incroyablement serein sur le visage, et ses main qui viennet entourer délicatement le visage de ses frères adoré, leur cachant chacun un oeil ...”
“Je n'oublierai jamais l'expression divine de ses traits; c'était l'air serein de la puissance et du génie, et suivant moi, Lord Byron n'avait, en ce moment, aucune affectation à se reprocher. "] *****”
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘serein’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Rainy weather report.
Today's weather.
is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
Are those drops, droplets?
Is the weatherman just using the word precipitation?
Is the scientist causing ...rain, sprinkle, droplets, shower, precipitation, freezing rain, drops, drizzle, sleet, thundershower, mist, pour and 126 more...
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Rain
rain, Purple Rain, drain, rainbow, grain, rain shadow, rainforest, raindrops keep fa..., rain, rain, go away, Rainn Wilson, Black Rain, rainbow trout and 55 more...
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Relating To: The Sky
Words of, about, or relating to the heavens.
firmament, horizon, celestial, pleiades, supernal, welkin, cerulean, hypaethral, abatjour, upaithric, canopus, cerulific and 40 more...
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T'ain't going to drain no more
wordie stoppers: without refrain: stanza on its own: lotion motion: T'ain't going to drain no moor
nanopyle, nanonize, nanocosm, ombromombo, misle(ad), nanostrobos, nanomini, peerl, serein, hyetalous, pelter, sluiciest and 43 more...
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Slam Fodder
Those words that will inevitable end up in a Slam Poem
feel free to challenge me!:)bumptious, gamekeeper, slamily, burbuliatorius, cryptomnesia, paradox, pulchritudinous, mimetic, anhedonia, skelf, rampike, furlough and 84 more...
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color, light & sight
albedo, chromatography, chromatic, tone, penumbra, superluminal, diaphanous, iridescent, amethyst, opalescent, celadon, lapis and 38 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Pretty Words
Words that sound pretty.
ethereal, ephemeral, iridescent, shimmer, wisp, whisper, charisma, crescent, azure, mystery, fantasy, miracle and 142 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo a closing reign Dec 2, 2008
reesetee Great word, bluemartian! Sep 16, 2007
bluemartian A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset. Sep 16, 2007