rainbow

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , equivalent to 🇰🇲. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
 * 2)  Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
 * 3)  A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
 * 4)   An illusion; a mirage.
 * 5)   A curveball, particularly a slow one.
 * 6)   In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
 * 7)   A person within the LGBT community.
 * 1)   A curveball, particularly a slow one.
 * 2)   In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
 * 3)   A person within the LGBT community.
 * 1)   A person within the LGBT community.
 * 1)   A person within the LGBT community.

Adjective

 * , especially if in rainbow order.
 * 1)  Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
 * 2) * 1994, John Simon, Of Dogs, Their Masters, and Others, in New York magazine, September 5 1994, page 51:
 * That Asian-American actor Thomas Ikeda contributes a pleasingly frantic Panthino would not be considered rainbow enough.
 * 1) * 2007, Hooson, in a Letter to the Western Mail, 19 June 2007, published in Crossing the Rubicon: coalition politics Welsh style by John Osmond, page 28:
 * it seemed to me to be naive indeed for the Liberal Democrats to believe that they could simply enter into a rainbow alliance against the Labour Government.
 * 1)  LGBT.
 * 2)  Composed entirely of different suits.
 * 3)  Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
 * 1)  LGBT.
 * 2)  Composed entirely of different suits.
 * 3)  Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.

Usage notes

 * In the United States, 'rainbow' groups/families/alliances/coalitions were originally those made up of several races or ethnicities. The term is now used more broadly, to refer (in the 2007 quotation, for example) to an alliance of several political parties. Separately, use of a rainbow flag as an LGBT symbol has led to the term being used to refer to LGBT groups (initiatives, etc).

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:multicolored

Translations

 * French: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Turkish:, ,

Verb

 * 1)  To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.