rains

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the season of the year in tropical countries when there is a lot of rain:

Villagers are now waiting for the rains to come so that the rice will grow.

This is the third year in a row that the rains have failed.

Everything here depends on the rains.

The rains came at the wrong time.

When the rains fail to come, people go hungry.

Unfortunately, the crops were ruined because the rains arrived too late in the season.