lightning
Meaning of lightning
noun
- A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
- A discharge of this kind.
That tree was hit by lightning.
- Anything that moves very fast.
- The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
verb
To produce lightning.
adjective
Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
Information about lightning
- The plural form of lightning is: lightnings.
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Hyphenation of lightning
light-ning
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- lightning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of lightning
- French: éclair
- Spanish: relámpago, rayo
- Italian: lampo, fulmine, folgore, saetta
- German: Blitz
- Portuguese: relâmpago
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