different between painmaker vs rainmaker

English

Etymology

pain +? maker

Noun

painmaker (plural painmakers)

1. Something that causes pain. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

English

Etymology

rain +? maker.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?nme?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??e?n?me?k?/
• Hyphenation: rain?mak?er

Noun

rainmaker (plural rainmakers)

1. Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.

   Synonym: pluviculturist

   1. An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain through performing rituals.
   2. A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods, such as cloud seeding.
2. (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success for a company, organization, etc.
3. (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the air.

Related terms

• make it rain
• rainmaking

Translations

Further reading

• rainmaking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rainmaking (ritual) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• rainmaker at OneLook Dictionary Search