Definition of rainbow

"rainbow" in the noun sense

1. rainbow

an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

2. rainbow

an illusory hope

"chasing rainbows"

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Quotations for rainbow

God's glowing covenant. [ Hosea Ballou ]

God's illumined promise. [ Longfellow ]

A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shepherd's delight. [ Old Weather Rhyme ]

The rainbow in the morning
Is the shepherd's warning;
The rainbow at night
Is the shepherd's delight. [ Proverb ]

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die. [ Wordsworth ]

The smiling daughter of the storm. [ Colton ]

Beauty, the fading rainbow's pride. [ Halleck ]

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. [ Mme. Necker ]

Bright pledge of peace and sunshine. [ Henry Vaughan ]

What skilful limner ever would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues.
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? [ Scott ]

And, lo! in the dark east, expanded high.
The rainbow brightens to the setting Sun. [ Beattie ]

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]

Mild arch of promise! on the evening-sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the other melting. [ Southey ]

Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky! [ Tennyson ]

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life. [ Byron ]

One of those passing rainbow dreams.
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll,
In trance or slumber, round the soul! [ Moore ]

Born of the shower, and colored by the sun. [ J. C. Prince ]

'Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep
From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high
The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. [ Byron ]

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light [ Coleridge ]

Ideality consists of the rainbow rays of intellect. [ Alfred Mercier ]

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. [ J. H. Vincent ]

Triumphant arch, that fill'st the sky when storms prepare to part! [ Campbell ]

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. [ Dr. Watts ]

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian, but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. [ Bishop Horne ]

Conspicuous with three listed colors gay, betokening peace from God, and covenant new. [ Milton ]

Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. [ Holmes ]

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! the evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray! [ Byron ]

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. [ W. B. Clulow ]

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. [ Diderot ]

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

rainbow in Scrabble®

The word rainbow is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters rainbow:

RAINBOW
(98 = 48 + 50)
RAINBOW
(98 = 48 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

rainbow

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word rainbow

RAINBOW
(98 = 48 + 50)
RAINBOW
(98 = 48 + 50)
RAINBOW
(95 = 45 + 50)
RAINBOW
(89 = 39 + 50)
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RAINBOW
(89 = 39 + 50)
RAINBOW
(88 = 38 + 50)
RAINBOW
(86 = 36 + 50)
RAINBOW
(86 = 36 + 50)
RAINBOW
(82 = 32 + 50)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
(80 = 30 + 50)
RAINBOW
(78 = 28 + 50)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
(68 = 18 + 50)
RAINBOW
(67 = 17 + 50)
RAINBOW
(66 = 16 + 50)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
(66 = 16 + 50)
RAINBOW
(64 = 14 + 50)
RAINBOW
(64 = 14 + 50)
RAINBOW
(64 = 14 + 50)
RAINBOW
(64 = 14 + 50)
RAINBOW
(63 = 13 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In rainbow

RAINBOW
(98 = 48 + 50)
RAINBOW
(98 = 48 + 50)
RAINBOW
(95 = 45 + 50)
RAINBOW
(89 = 39 + 50)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
(82 = 32 + 50)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
(78 = 28 + 50)
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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rainbow in Words With Friends™

The word rainbow is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters rainbow:

RAINBOW
(125 = 90 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

rainbow

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word rainbow

RAINBOW
(125 = 90 + 35)
RAINBOW
(101 = 66 + 35)
RAINBOW
(95 = 60 + 35)
RAINBOW
(95 = 60 + 35)
RAINBOW
(91 = 56 + 35)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
(79 = 44 + 35)
RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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RAINBOW
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In rainbow

RAINBOW
(125 = 90 + 35)
RAINBOW
(101 = 66 + 35)
RAINBOW
(95 = 60 + 35)
RAINBOW
(95 = 60 + 35)
RAINBOW
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Words within the letters of rainbow

2 letter words in rainbow (9 words)

4 letter words in rainbow (11 words)

5 letter words in rainbow (7 words)

7 letter words in rainbow (1 word)

rainbow + 1 blank (1 word)

rainbow + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence rainbow

Words that start with rainbow (5 words)

Words with rainbow in them (1 word)

Words that end with rainbow (1 word)

Word Growth involving rainbow

Shorter words in rainbow

ow bow

ai rain

in rain

Longer words containing rainbow

rainbowed

rainbowlike

rainbows

rainbowweed