RAINBOW
\ɹˈe͡ɪnbə͡ʊ], \ɹˈeɪnbəʊ], \ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_b_əʊ]\
Definitions of RAINBOW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The bright-colored arc or bow formed in the heavens opposite the sun by the reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain, or in spray, mist, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An arch of refracted and reflected light, seen usually at the close of a shower, exhibiting the spectrum colors.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A bow, or an arc of a circle, consisting of all the prismatic colours, produced in the atmosphere by the refraction and reflection of the sun's light from the rain drops, and appearing in the quarter opposite the sun. Lunar rainbow, a phenomenon similar to the rainbow, but produced by the moon.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A bow or arch formed in the heavens, consisting of many beautiful and brilliant colours, which are produced by the refraction and reflection of rays of light falling on watery particles in the part of the heavens opposite to the sun.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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