rainbow
- noun
- B2
- Top 5000
The band of many colours that you can see in the sky when the sun shines through falling rain.
A bright rainbow appeared over the rooftops as the shower ended.
We stopped the car to photograph a double rainbow above the fields.
Sunlight through the spray of the waterfall made a small rainbow.
She painted a rainbow across the whole top of her page.
Common collocations: a double rainbow · see a rainbow · a rainbow appears · the colours of the rainbow · at the end of the rainbow