🇬🇧 Rainbow meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A rainbow is a big curved band of many colors, like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, that you see in the sky after rain when sunlight shines through tiny drops of water, almost like the sky is painting a bright smile.

The rainbow was so bright that even my math homework looked less scary for five whole seconds.

The rainbow made the whole gray sky look like it had pressed the “add color” filter on itself.

I asked the rainbow which color was its favorite, and it said, “All of them, obviously.”

Our cat tried to catch the rainbow on the wall and ended up high-fiving the lamp instead.

A rainbow is that it’s actually a full circle of colors, but from the ground we can usually only see it as a half-arc, like the sky is halfway through drawing a colorful donut.

After rain a boy walks outside. The sun comes and he looks up. He sees a rainbow in the sky. The rainbow shows red, yellow, blue, green, orange and purple. Another small rainbow stays near the first rainbow. The boy points at the rainbow and smiles. He runs home to tell his mum. She smiles.

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This word is at the A1 level, which means it is one of the first words you learn when starting English. It’s commonly used in everyday conversations and helps you communicate basic ideas like greetings, family, or daily activities.

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