Definitions for lightning

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lightning light·ning

Spelling: [lahyt-ning]

IPA: /ˈlaɪt nɪŋ/

Lightning is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in lightning (gghiilnnt).

Definitions for lightning

noun

1. a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling lightning, especially in regard to speed of movement:

verb (used without object)

1. to emit a flash or flashes of lightning (often used impersonally with it as subject):

Origin of lightning

1350-1400; Middle English, variant of lightening. See lighten¹, -ing¹

Examples for lightning

The action is as quick as thought, and thought is as quick as lightning.

She looked young to be a doctor, he decided, after that lightning survey.

Andrew went on with his lightning summary of the things he passed.

Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.

There were flashes of lightning outside and the rumble of thunder.

Improvements in lightning tracking help scientists know where to send aircraft to look for fires.

Setting up the company “came to me as a lightning bolt last summer,” Lear tells me.

Second, Michelle served as a lightning rod in the sense of drawing attacks away from other reform groups.

Often, during a thunderstorm a tree had been hit by lightning.

A change swift as lightning had come over me, a sudden exultation.