drought

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

  1. (countable, uncountable) A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
  2. (broadly, countable, informal, uncountable) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
  3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) dryness, aridness, dry heat

Đối diện của
winning streak
Từ đồng nghĩa

dry weather

water shortage

drought disaster

crop failure

dry damage

rain-shortage

want of rain

want of water

year of drought

lack of rainfall

Tính thường xuyên

C2
Phát âm là (IPA)
/dɹaʊt/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

In summary

From Middle English droghte, drouȝte, druhhþe, druȝþe, drouȝth, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. By surface analysis, dry + -t (abstract nominal suffix).

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