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rainbow

noun as in color spectrum

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Example Sentences

Following Szutowicz’s arrest, many protesters have been displaying rainbow flags across the city, and are subsequently being arrested for those actions.

All the colors in the rainbow—and your t-shirt drawer, as it so happens.

They gave away over 200 hundreds of rainbow masks in each spot.

That’s why, when you see a double rainbow, the secondary arc is much dimmer and its colors are flipped.

I noticed when I went over to the chemistry department that a lot of the professors had stickers on their doors with a rainbow or triangle that said that they were LGBTQ allies.

Meanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.

She is smiling, a pink-striped hat on her head and a mini rainbow lollipop sticking out of her mouth.

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

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

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

Directly after them came a lot of palace attendants in curious hats and long robes of all colours of the rainbow.

The colours of the rainbow shone there in pale tints, and the flaring sunshine could not enter.

They glittered and shone with an intensity of colour which surpassed even those of the rainbow.

Nor did the future appear any more in a rainbow glory, since he realised that it would bring renunciation as well as joy.

As the appearance of the rainbow when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this was the appearance of the brightness round about.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is another name for rainbow?

Literally speaking, a rainbow is an arc (bow) of colors that appears in the sky due to rays of sunshine being reflected and refracted by raindrops (or other water droplets). The word rainbow is also commonly used to refer to any artistic representations of this.

Technically speaking, a rainbow can be classified as a primary rainbow or a secondary rainbow. Together, they can form a double rainbow. Triple rainbows are very rare.

Rainbow is also commonly used as an adjective that means containing all or many colors of the spectrum (the main ones being red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—aka roygbiv). Synonyms of this sense include multicolored (or multicolor), kaleidoscopic, and prismatic. Kaleidoscopic suggests something full of bright colors in a way that’s reminiscent of the images seen when looking through a kaleidoscope. Prismatic is a reference to the rainbow-colored when light shines through a prism.

Extended from this is a more general sense of rainbow that’s applied to anything featuring a diverse collection of people or things, as in rainbow coalition.

Rainbows and rainbow flags are popularly used as symbols of the LGBTQ+ community.

What is another way to say sunshine and rainbows?

Sunshine and rainbows is an idiom used to refer a situation that’s completely positive in all aspects. The phrase is most often used in negative constructions to imply that such situations are rare or impossible (and that it’s naive to think that they’re not), as in Marriage is not all sunshine and rainbows.

Phrases used to mean the same thing often use some of the same terms in varying combinations: sunshine and lollipops, unicorns and rainbows, sunshine and puppies.

The phrase peaches and cream can mean the same thing, but it’s more often used in positive constructions.

The phrase sweetness and light is somewhat similar, but it’s usually applied to people, as opposed to situations.

Singles words that can mean the same thing are rosy and rose-colored.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rainbow, such as: arc, bow, crescent, curve, prism, and variegation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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