Synonyms for rainbow

Grammar : Noun

Spell : reyn-boh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪnˌboʊ

Définition of rainbow

Origin : Old English renboga; see rain (n.) + bow (n.). Common Germanic compound (cf. Old Frisian reinboga, Old Norse regnbogi, Swedish regenbåge, Dutch regenboog, German Regenbogen). Rainbow trout (1876, American English) so called for its resplendent colors. Old English also had scurboga "shower-bow."

noun color spectrum

Example sentences :

The Oreades had music written on scrolls, in all the colours of the rainbow.
Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child

She has faded away like a rainbow—like a drop of dew in the sun.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

No one dared to use the rainbow but Iris, to whom it had been given by Jupiter.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

Notice a rainbow, when possible, and form one with a prism in the schoolroom.
Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd

Like all explorers he was unhappy over his lot and looked beyond the rainbow.
Extract from : « Spacemen Never Die! » by Morris Hershman

Then his own deeper one, out of its lightsome darkness: "A rainbow, child!"
Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine

Her big heart began to fail and the rainbow in the sky of her life to pale away.
Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine

There are three or four yards of silk in it and it will knock a rainbow out of sight.
Extract from : « A Waif of the Mountains » by Edward S. Ellis

Flax could see it brighter than all the brightness of the rainbow.
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

He consulted his own treatise on the Rainbow, but to no avail.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

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