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# rainbow

noun (a rainbow, rainbows); adjective use (rainbow colours)

«rainbow» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A rainbow is a curved band of colours that appears in the sky when sunlight shines through raindrops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#m1)
2. Anything with many bright colours in bands can be called rainbow, like a rainbow scarf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science a rainbow shows that white light is made of colours split by water drops (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet); you see one with the sun behind you and rain in front. In stories it is a sign of hope after a storm. Phrases: «a double rainbow», «the colours of the rainbow», «at the end of the rainbow».

### Examples

- After the rain we saw a rainbow over the hills. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x1)
- There are seven colours in a rainbow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x2)
- A prism can make a rainbow on the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x3)
- We saw a double rainbow from the car. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x4)
- She wore a rainbow T-shirt to school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x5)
- You can make a small rainbow with a garden hose on a sunny day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x6)
- Red is always on the outside of a rainbow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x7)
- The water drops mounted to the clouds and glittered in the rainbow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a rainbow, two rainbows. One word. Myth: there is no pot of gold at the end of a rainbow — you can never reach its end, because it moves as you move. The seven colours: ROYGBIV.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «rainbow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainbow/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«rainbow» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/rainbow.html) on Mova free.