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Plural of rainbow

regular plural

The plural of rainbow is rainbows.

Forms of rainbow

Singularrainbow /ˈɹeɪnboʊ/
Pluralrainbows
Countablecountable

Rainbows in a sentence

  • Many electoral promises are rainbows, vanishing soon after poll day.
  • It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows for the Japanese, though, although the first U.S.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 14:49 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry peel away
  • Keep in mind that none of this is guaranteed to end with rainbows and unicorns.2017, Daniel S. Traber, “Introduction: Kill Yr. Culture”, in Culturcide and Non-identity across American Culture, Lanham, Md.; London…. From the entry rainbows and unicorns
  • You're a happy, optimistic uni-canary exploding with sunshine and rainbows—go tweet up another tree with that.2013, Victor D. Franco, Unleashed. From the entry sunshine and rainbows
  • Among the rarer optical effects associated with the moon are also moonbows or lunar rainbows.2010, Bernd Brunner, Moon: A Brief History, unnumbered page. From the entry moonbow

Meaning of rainbow

  1. noun A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
  2. noun Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
  3. noun A wide assortment; a varied multitude.

Full definition of rainbow

Questions about the plural of rainbow

What is the plural of rainbow?
The plural of rainbow is rainbows.
Is rainbow countable?
Rainbow is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rainbow (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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