What part of speech is the italicized word? (rainstorm)

The campers were drenched by the rainstorm.

noun

verb

pronoun

adjective

adverb

The italicized word is a noun.

Explanation:

A noun is that word that can represent a thing, a person, an animal, a place, a quality, or an idea. Most of the time it is simply a single word.

Nouns can be common or proper, where common nouns refer to people, places or things but in a general way. While a proper noun refers to something particular: Donald Trump, Chile, etc.

Nouns can be countable and uncountable.

As the name implies, countable nouns are those that can be counted: a house, a car, three tables.

While uncountable nouns are those that cannot be counted: water, snow, rain.

On the other hand we have the gerunds, which are those nouns that end in - ing. For example: I love cooking. (cooking is a gerund).

We also have the attributive nouns, which are those that modify another noun, for example: book store.

rainstorm is a noun