Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

somewhere over the rainbow

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables: some-where over the rain-bow
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby"

Etymology

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

What does somewhere over the rainbow mean?: In an unknown, hypothetical, or very distant place.
Where does somewhere over the rainbow come from?: 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

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