Definition of Rainbow

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Rainbow

A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

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Rainbow Quotations

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Rita Mae Brown

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
Barbara Walters

Rainbow Translations

rainbow in Danish is regnbue
rainbow in Dutch is regenboog
rainbow in French is arc-en-ciel, arc en ciel
rainbow in German is regenbogen
rainbow in Italian is arcobaleno
rainbow in Spanish is arco iris

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