Dictionary Entry
lightning
lightning is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verbb noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
- 2noun
The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers.
- 3verbb noun
Lightening.
- 4noun
the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
- 5noun
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
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