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somewhere over the rainbow

somewhere over the rainbow adverb: in an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.

Adverb

somewhere over the rainbow (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.
    • Perhaps somewhere over the rainbow there is a land where equality and justice are colorblind, where no one is the other, where no one by virtue of race, gender, or sexual orientation is an outcast or an anomaly.1996, Ann DuCille, Skin Trade
    • Somewhere over the rainbow
      Way up high,
      There's a land that I heard of
      Once in a lullaby1939, Judy Garland, Over the Rainbow

somewhere over the rainbow meaning in Bengali

somewhere over the rainbow in Bengali

কোনো অজানা, কাল্পনিক, বা অত্যন্ত দূরবর্তী স্থান

Origin of somewhere over the rainbow

Popularized from the song Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland, written by Harold Arlen (music) and E. Y. Harburg (lyrics) for the film The Wizard of Oz

Questions about somewhere over the rainbow

What does somewhere over the rainbow mean?
Somewhere over the rainbow means in an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.
What is somewhere over the rainbow in Bengali?
Somewhere over the rainbow in Bengali is কোনো অজানা, কাল্পনিক, বা অত্যন্ত দূরবর্তী স্থান. See Somewhere over the rainbow meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is somewhere over the rainbow?
Somewhere over the rainbow is an adverb.

Words near somewhere over the rainbow in the dictionary

  1. somewhen
  2. somewhence
  3. somewhere
  4. somewhere along the line
  5. somewhere else
  6. somewhere over the rainbow
  7. somewhereness
  8. somewheres
  9. somewhile
  10. somewhiles
  11. somewhither

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somewhere over the rainbow (page history and authors); somewhere over the rainbow (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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