Kaleidoscope

Quick meaning: Kaleidoscope is a noun meaning (figuratively) A constantly changing series of colours or other things.

Meaning

(figuratively) A constantly changing series of colours or other things.

More Meanings

1. (collective) A swarm of butterflies.
2. (intransitive) To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns.
3. An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen.

Example Sentences

[T]his rainbow look'd like hope— / Quite a celestial kaleidoscope.

Another most notable change concerns rolling stock liveries. Back then, corporate Rail Blue was omnipresent, whereas now there is a kaleidoscope of colours and styles.

Lady Etheringhame being now a constitutionalist, dined rather early: and Emily, her head like a kaleidescope, full of colours, with not a little disdain, put on the blue silk she had thought bleu céleste, at least in the country.

The mind of Petrarch was like a kaleidoscope. At every turn it presents us with new forms, always fantastic, occasionally beautiful; and we can scarcely believe that all these varieties have been produced by the same worthless fragments of glass.

Word Forms

• kaleidoscopes
• kaleidoscoping
• kaleidoscoped

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