Noun: rainbow
| Singular | rainbow |
| Plural | rainbows |
Sample Sentences
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Why are there so many songs about rainbows
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And what's on the other side?
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Rainbows are visions, but only illusions
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And rainbows have nothing to hide. [1979, Paul Williams, Kenneth Ascher, “Rainbow Connection”, performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson):]
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a rainbow of possibilities
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Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
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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. [1911, Francis R. Steel, “Catching the Rainbow Trout”, in The Outing Magazine, volume 58, page 482:]
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Oh look, the rainbow came back.
Nouns inflected like rainbow
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-West Germanic *regnabogō, from Proto-Germanic *regnabugô (“rainbow”), equivalent to rain + bow (“arch”). Cognate with West Frisian reinbôge (“rainbow”), Dutch regenboog (“rainbow”), German Regenbogen (“rainbow”), Danish regnbue (“rainbow”), Swedish regnbåge (“rainbow”), Icelandic regnbogi (“rainbow”). See: Middle English Nouns '
reynbowe', Old English Nouns '
reġnboga', Dutch Nouns '
regenboog', German Nouns '
Regenbogen', Danish Nouns '
regnbue', Swedish Nouns '
regnbåge', Icelandic Nouns '
regnbogi'.
Verbs referencing "rainbow"
German Nouns
Regenbogen.