lightning
adjective
1. Extremely fast or sudden.
2. Moving at the speed of lightning.
noun
1. abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
Definition categories: phenomenon
2. 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
Definition categories: event, flash
Sentences with lightning as a noun:
- Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
- The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
- That tree was hit by lightning.
verb
1. (impersonal, childish or nonstandard) To produce lightning.