Definitions for kaleidoscope

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kaleidoscope ka·lei·do·scope

Spelling: [kuh-lahy-duh-skohp]

IPA: /kəˈlaɪ dəˌskoʊp/

Kaleidoscope is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1255 anagrams from letters in kaleidoscope (acdeeikloops).

Definitions for kaleidoscope

noun

1. an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
2. a continually changing pattern of shapes and colors.
3. a continually shifting pattern, scene, or the like:

Origin of kaleidoscope

1817; Greek kal(ós) beautiful + eîdo(s) shape + -scope

Examples for kaleidoscope

Then, in a moment, the whole picture changed with the rapidity of a kaleidoscope.

How strange are the groupings we see, yet do not marvel at, in the kaleidoscope of life!

But the kaleidoscope turns, and the pieces of glass are shifted.

Her aspirations were noble: Inject high art into pop music and create a Koons-esque kaleidoscope of dance tracks.

All was but a confused mind-picture, changing as a kaleidoscope, blurred, shadowy.

The kaleidoscope having been turned, the pattern changed of itself.

Mame—Mame and her kaleidoscope romances, insults, and adventures?

So, ever changing day by day, every man's life is but a kaleidoscope.

The husband on the contrary changed to view like a kaleidoscope.

A change—like the flashing colours of a kaleidoscope; like the phantoms of a dream!