Usually means: Spectrum of light; atmospheric phenomenon.
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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word Rainbow:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. rainbow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rainbow: Merriam-Webster
  3. rainbow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rainbow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rainbow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rainbow, rainbow: Wordnik
  7. rainbow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rainbow, rainbow: Wiktionary
  9. rainbow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rainbow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rainbow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rainbow: Dictionary.com
  13. rainbow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Rainbow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. rainbow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. rainbow: Rhymezone
  18. rainbow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. rainbow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Rainbow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. rainbow: FreeDictionary.org
  22. rainbow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rainbow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. rainbow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. rainbow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  26. rainbow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rainbow: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rainbow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rainbow: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RAINBOW: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. rainbow: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rainbow: Easton Bible
  2. Rainbow: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rainbow: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rainbow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rainbow: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. RAINBOW (person), the rainbow: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rainbow: Dan's Poker
  2. Rainbow: Gambling Glossary
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Rainbow: Poker Terms

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See rainbowing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Rainbow)

noun:  A multicoloured arch in the sky, produced by prismatic refraction of light within droplets of rain in the air.
noun:  Any prismatic refraction of light showing a spectrum of colours.
noun:  (often used with “of”) A wide assortment; a varied multitude.
noun:  (figurative) An illusion; a mirage.
noun:  (baseball) A curveball, particularly a slow one.
noun:  (soccer) A trick in which the player makes the ball arc over the opponent's head using both feet; rainbow kick
noun:  (poker slang) In Texas hold 'em or Omaha hold 'em, a flop that contains three different suits.
noun:  Rainbow trout.
noun:  (figuratively, sometimes derogatory) A person within the LGBT community.
adjective:  Multicolored, especially if in rainbow order.
adjective:  (attributive, chiefly US) Made up of several races or ethnicities, or (more broadly) of several cultural or ideological factions.
adjective:  (attributive) LGBT.
adjective:  (poker, chiefly of a flop) Composed entirely of different suits.
adjective:  (mathematics, cryptography) Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
verb:  (transitive) To brighten with, or as with, a rainbow; to pattern with the colours of the rainbow.
verb:  (intransitive) To take the appearance of a rainbow.
verb:  (climbing) 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.
noun:  A member of the Rainbow Guides, a Girl Guide movement for younger girls.
noun:  A census-designated place in San Diego County, California, United States.
noun:  A surname.

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