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[ US /ˈɹeɪnˌboʊ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈe‍ɪnbə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an illusory hope
    chasing rainbows
  2. an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

How To Use rainbow In A Sentence

  • There was a horizon-to-horizon rainbow to the northeast, a "sun pillar" to the northwest, and "virga" - wisps of precipitation (such as snow or ice) streaming down from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground. Kansas.com Blogs Master Site Feed
  • Plasma levels of GH increase following seawater exposure of coho, chum and Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout.
  • Delaunay's bright, geometric gouache, watercolor and black crayon "Rythme couleur, Paris" (1966) is estimated at £20,000-£30,000; carrying the same estimate will be Otto Freundlich's cheerful pastel "Cosmic Rainbow" (1922). Tips to Starting a Collection
  • I love London particularly for that layered feel, for its glorious haphazardness and its unique personality, which Peter Ackroyd personisifes as William Blake's Glad Day: a radiant youth with his arms outstretched against rainbow light. MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building
  • I replied by saying that I'd have spent £1000 buying cappuccinos for Plaid Cymru AMs. Not so much to imply that Ieuan's group are 'biddable', but an admission that the key to the 'Rainbow' was implanting in the consciousness of Plaid Cymru the belief that we have really changed. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Untitled eying me thusly you ripen my rainbow with your vat of honey spilling with a dewdrop smile you've found me, lucky one now dare you dare me not to (,) do you? we'll meet not under clover sheets rather on your greedy bed in violets PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen
  • Strange flashes of varicoloured, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
  • Nancy Finn at Chasing Rainbows dyes lovely silk caps and tussah and and and... Spinning Silk Hankies
  • The hipster cops are sneering at the two faux surfers: 'I'm all dialed in to see what happens if the pair of rainbow donks actually hit the briny on their unwaxed legs.' Joseph Wambaugh's latest: Loopy theatrics and lyrical language
  • For example, last year our wildlife department verified natural reproduction in both rainbows and browns in the Lower Mountain Fork river, which is a fantastic year-round tailrace fishery in SE Oklahoma. Hatchery Fish: The Weakest Link
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