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This week's theme There is a word for it. This week's words hypergelast skeuomorph hey rube snood serein Next week's theme Words about words Give a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg serein PRONUNCIATION: (suh-RAN [the second syllable is nasal]) MEANING: noun: Fine rain falling from an apparently cloudless sky, typically observed after sunset. ETYMOLOGY: From French serein, from Old French serain (evening), from Latin serum (evening), from serus (late). USAGE: "She must have caught a chill from the serein, that's all!" Raphael Confiant; Mamzelle Dragonfly; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2000. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Journalism is publishing what someone doesn't want us to know, the rest is propaganda. -Horacio Verbitsky, journalist (b. 1942)

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