Rainbow

Noun

 * 1) A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
 * 2) Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
 * 3)  A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
 * ''a rainbow of possibilities
 * 1) An illusion, mirage
 * ''Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
 * 1)  A curveball, particularly a slow one
 * 2)  In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits

Quotations

 * 1911, Francis R. Steel, Catching the Rainbow Trout, in The Outing Magazine, volume 58, page 482:
 * Finally, by actual trial, I have found that I can catch more rainbow by using one fly than with a two or three-fly cast.
 * 1994, John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others, in New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51:
 * That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.

Synonyms

 * spectrum

Derived terms

 * rainbow fish
 * rainbow perch
 * rainbow runner

Related terms

 * crossbow

Adjective

 * 1) Multicoloured.
 * 2)  🇺🇸 Mellow, laid back, peaceful.
 * 3)  🇺🇸 Non-racist.
 * 4)  🇺🇸 Racially or ethnically blended.
 * 5)  Having, or shining with, the colors of the rainbow: iridescent.
 * 6)  Composed entirely of different suits.
 * 7)  LGBT.
 * 8) * 2005, Alan McKee, The public sphere: an introduction, page 167:
 * Similarly, the question of who belongs in such a rainbow alliance isn't set. It can include gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals. It can include people who are 'questioning' which culture they belong to [...]

Quotations

 * 2007, Hooson, in a Letter to the Western Mail, 19 June 2007, published in Crossing the Rubicon: coalition politics Welsh style by John Osmond, page 28:
 * [...] it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.
 * 2008, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian politics and society since independence, page 76:
 * Mayawati has succeeded in building a social coalition that inverts the pyramid of caste/class hierarchy by building a rainbow alliance of social groups, now dominated by that greatest underclass of all, namely Dalits.

Verb

 * 1)  To pattern with many colours, like a rainbow.

Adjectives for Rainbow
momentary; live; wonderful; myriad (pi); glorified; ephemeral; wondrous; emerald.

Thesaurus
Amytal, Amytal pill, Dalmatian, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, angry clouds, anodyne, anthelion, antigorite, antisun, aura, aureole, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, black cat, black clouds, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, broken mirror, butterfly, calmative, candy cane, chameleon, cheetah, chimera, chloral hydrate, chromatic, chrysotile, circle, codeine, codeine cough syrup, cold, colorific, coloring, confetti, cool, corona, countersun, crazy quilt, depressant, depressor, dichromatic, dolly, downer, dream, fantasy, firedog, gathering clouds, glory, glowing, goofball, halcyon bird, halo, hard stuff, harlequin, harmonious, heroin, hop, horse, hypnotic, illusion, iridescence, iris, jaguar, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, leopard, liquor, lotus, lunar corona, lunar halo, mackerel, mackerel sky, many-colored, marble, marbled paper, matching, medley, meperidine, methadone, mock moon, mock sun, moire, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, moon dog, morphia, morphine, mother-of-pearl, mother-of-pearl cloud, motley, nacre, nacreousness, narcotic, nimbus, ocelot, opal, opalescence, ophite, opiate, opium, owl, pacifier, pain killer, paraselene, paregoric, parhelic circle, parhelion, parti-colored, patchwork quilt, peacock, pearliness, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, pigmentary, pipe, polychromatic, prismatic, purple heart, quietener, raven, red, ring, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, serpentine, serpentine marble, shit, shooting star, shot silk, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, solar corona, solar halo, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spectral, spectrum, storm clouds, stormy petrel, sun dog, tar, thundercloud, thunderhead, tinctorial, tingent, toning, tortoise shell, tranquilizer, turps, variegated, warm, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket, zebra

Etymology
From regnboga:, formed as regn: + boga:. Cognate with Old High German reginbogo, Icelandic regnbogi and Old Norse regnbogi.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic:
 * Amuzgo: kítzú jn'â
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Armenian:
 * Aymara: kurumi
 * Basque: ostadar, ortzadar
 * Belarusian: вясёлка
 * Bengali:
 * Breton: kanevedenn, gwareg-ar-glav
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: arc de Sant Martí, arc iris
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chichewa: utawaleza
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: 隮 (jī); 彩虹 (cǎi hóng)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ælabogi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: arco da vella
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hausa: bàkan gizò
 * Hawaiian: ānuenue
 * Hebrew: קשת בענן (keshet be'anan)
 * Hindi: इन्द्रधनुष
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: iris, iride
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 虹 (にじ, niji)
 * Kannada:, , ,
 * Kazakh: кемпірқосақ
 * Kikuyu: műkűnga-mbura


 * Korean: 무지개
 * Kurdish:, , ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: varavīksne
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Reebou
 * Malay: pelangi, benang raja
 * Malayalam: മഴവില്ല്, ഇന്ദ്രധനുസ്
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: goal twoaie, Bhow Ghoree (poetic)
 * Maori: kahukura, aaheahea, paahoka, uenuku, kairangi, rore, taawhanawhana
 * Marathi: इंद्रधनुष्य
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: cozamalotl
 * Nepali: इन्द्रेनी (indreni)
 * Newari:
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Northern Sami: arvedávgi, bajándávgi
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Pennsylvania German:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: kurmi
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Saterland Frisian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дуга
 * Roman: duga
 * Silesian:
 * Skolt Sami: teärmmazjohss
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: qaanso, jeegaan, caasha carab dheer
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: upinde wa mvua
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bahag-hari
 * Tahitian: anuanua
 * Tamil: வானவில் (vānavil)
 * Turkish: gökkuşağı, ebem kuşağı, peygamber kuşağı
 * Urdu: دھنک
 * Volapük: reinabob
 * Welsh: enfys, bwa'r Drindod, bwa'r arch
 * West Frisian: reinbôge
 * Yiddish:
 * Yucatec Maya:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Indonesian:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Polish:


 * Finnish:

Adjective

 * Dutch: regenboogkleurig, geiridiseerd, iriserend
 * Finnish:, riemunkirjava
 * German: irisierend; schillernd, regenbogenlich


 * Polish: tęczowy
 * Russian: радужный


 * Dutch: bont, meerkleurig, veelkleurig
 * Finnish:


 * German: ,
 * Polish: tęczowy


 * : многоцветен, пъстроцветен
 * :, multicolore
 * : iridescente


 * : iridescente
 * : irisado
 * : gökkuşağı, ebem kuşağı, peygamber kuşağı