rainbow flag
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rainbow-striped flag, typically consisting of six horizontal bars (from top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet), used as a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements.
noun
A rainbow-striped flag used as an international symbol of peace.
noun
The flag of South Africa.
noun
The flag of the First Republic of China, used between 1912 and 1928, consisting of red, yellow, blue, white, and black stripes.
Archaic
noun
A wiphala.
Example Sentences
- "The rainbow flag flies especially proudly in 'Boystown,' along Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood (WeHo). Dozens of high-energy bars, cafés, restaurants, gyms and clubs flank this strip […]"
- "The extraordinary Josia Thugwane kept the best for last and made the rainbow flag fly over the closing ceremony of the Games. […] Today we honour all our athletes who ensured that the rainbow flag never touched the ground in Atlanta."
- "In 1994 South Africa held its first fully democratic elections which were overwhelmingly won by the ANC and Mandela became the first black president. At midnight on April 26th the new rainbow flag was raised and the new national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika (God Bless Africa), was sung across the nation."
- "We are pleased to be sending off our hard working teams to go and represent the nation abroad, and fly the rainbow flag high."
- "Mandela is a Xhosa, an eastern Bantu tribe with some admixture of Bushman genes and language. He is also the integrator of the highly diverse South African nation, with a half Portuguese wife […] thus Mandela is a 'painted', ordained figure, incidental with attributes of the type, and the South African rainbow flag."
- "That is how the invitation to President Mandela's inauguration fell to me. As I watched the ceremonies, and observed the rainbow flag of a newly freed nation unfold, I reflected on the growth of the international scrutiny of contested laws in every country, including my own."