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say it: TAW-ruhnt
torrent is a noun meaning "a heavy rain". It is pronounced /ˈtɔɹənt/ — TAW-ruhnt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a heavy rain
a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid)
“the houses were swept away in the torrent”
an overwhelming number or amount
“a flood of requests”
“a torrent of abuse”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for torrent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.