Noun: torrent
| Singular | torrent |
| Plural | torrents |
Sample Sentences
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Rain fell on the hills in torrents.
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A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
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"Try not the Pass!" the old man said; / "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, / The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" / And loud that clarion voice replied / Excelsior! [1841 September 28 (date written), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] Excelsior.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1842, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 130:]
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Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. [2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:]
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They endured a torrent of inquiries.
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The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, / And the highwayman came riding— / Riding—riding— / The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. [1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza I, page 45:]
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On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower. [1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXI [Uniform ed., p. 278]]
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Western civilization has always taught the repression of emotion […] The emotional torrents of opera rebel against this. [1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6:]
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A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen. [2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like torrent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of torrēns (“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latin torrēre (“to parch, scorch”). See: French Nouns '
torrent', Italian Nouns '
torrente', Latin Nouns '
torrēre'.
Verbs referencing "torrent"
Russian Nouns
торрент, Bulgarian Nouns
торент.