April shower

English

Noun

April shower (plural April showers)

1. (UK and Ireland) A sporadic burst of light rain in the spring season, especially in the month of April.
   • c. 1430, John Lydgate, Reason and Sensuality:

     Holsom as the Aprile shower fallying on the herbes newe.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 395:

     That pleaſing Shade they ſought, a ſoft retreat / From ſudden April Show'rs, a Shelter from the Heat.

   • 2017 April 5, Harriet Walker, “How to look stylish in an April shower”, in The Times‎^[1], Fashion:

Hypernyms

• rain

Holonyms

• See Thesaurus:spring

Related terms

• April showers
• April showers bring May flowers
• cumulus (“large white puffy cloud”)

Translations

rain characteristic of spring

• French: giboulée de mars f