Definitions for rainbow

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rainbow rain·bow

Spelling: [reyn-boh]

IPA: /ˈreɪnˌboʊ/

Rainbow is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in rainbow (abinorw).

Definitions for rainbow

noun

1. a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
2. a similar bow of colors, especially one appearing in the spray of a waterfall or fountain.
3. any brightly multicolored arrangement or display.
4. a wide variety or range; gamut.
5. a visionary goal:
6. rainbow trout.

adjective

1. having a diverse membership; including representatives from multiple racial and ethnic groups:

Origin of rainbow

before 1000; Middle English reinbowe, Old English regnboga; cognate with Old Norse regnbogi, German Regenbogen. See rain, bow²

Examples for rainbow

The Oreades had music written on scrolls, in all the colours of the rainbow.

She has faded away like a rainbow—like a drop of dew in the sun.

Like all explorers he was unhappy over his lot and looked beyond the rainbow.

Because the marketing of the screening included a rainbow flag and said it was to be the kickoff of “LGBT Awareness Month.”

Notice a rainbow, when possible, and form one with a prism in the schoolroom.

David Bowie, Ronnie Wood, and Marianne Faithfull were regulars at the rainbow Room, a restaurant on the fifth floor.

The turn-of-the-century stretch that yielded The rainbow Children and N.E.W.S. is particularly easy to ignore.

Here and there, sparingly, one of the dolls might be purple or green: “rainbow Piets,” they call them.

In 2010, alongside PAPER Magazine, FWY and Pharrell created rainbow City at Art Basel Miami Beach.

No one dared to use the rainbow but Iris, to whom it had been given by Jupiter.