Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.

  2. (intransitive)To take the appearance of a rainbow.

  3. In climbing gyms where the rocks to climb are colored to indicate suggested climbing routes, to climb rocks of different colors, thereby ignoring such routes.

Examples

146 sentences

  1. Did you see the rainbow today?

    Ти сьогодні бачив веселку? — deniko

    ruТы видел сегодня радугу? — Wezel

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  2. Have you ever seen a rainbow?

    Ти колись бачила веселку? — deniko

    ruТы когда-нибудь видел радугу? — marafon

    deHast du schon einmal einen Regenbogen gesehen? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. The rainbow has seven colors.

    У веселки сім кольорів. — deniko

    ruУ радуги семь цветов. — Hellerick

    deDer Regenbogen hat sieben Farben. — MUIRIEL

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  4. I've never seen a rainbow.

    Я ніколи не бачив веселки. — shanghainese

    ruЯ никогда не видел радуги. — marafon

    deIch habe noch nie einen Regenbogen gesehen. — pne

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  5. What a beautiful rainbow!

    Яка гарна веселка! — deniko

    ruКакая красивая радуга! — Hellerick

    deWas für ein schöner Regenbogen! — MUIRIEL

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From Middle English reynbowe, raynbowe, from Old English reġnboga (“rainbow”), from Proto-

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”).

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Forms

rainbows, rainbowing, rainbowed, rainbowed
Base formrainbow · to rainbow
3rd person singularrainbows
Present participlerainbowing
Past simplerainbowed
Past participlerainbowed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrainbow
he, she, itrainbows

Past simpleLesson

all personsrainbowed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rainbowed
he, she, ithas rainbowed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill rainbow

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
railroadB1railwayB1rainA1raincoatA2raindroprainfallB1rainforestB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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