Usually means: Prolonged period of insufficient rainfall.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. drought: Merriam-Webster
  2. drought: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drought: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drought: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drought, drought: Wordnik
  7. drought: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drought: Wiktionary
  9. drought: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drought (drouth): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drought: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. drought: Dictionary.com
  13. drought: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drought: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Drought (EP), Drought (sport), Drought, The Drought (album), The Drought: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Drought: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. drought: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. drought: Rhymezone
  19. drought: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. drought: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. drought: FreeDictionary.org
  22. drought: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. drought: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. drought: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. drought: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. drought: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drought: Africa Glossary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drought: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. drought: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Drought: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Drought: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See droughtiness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
noun:  (by extension, informal) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
noun:  (archaic) dryness, aridness, dry heat
noun:  A surname.

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