Synonyms for lightning
ˈlaɪt nɪŋlight·ning

Princeton's WordNet

1. lightningnoun

   abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

2. lightningnoun

   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

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1. • Atmospheric Electricity
   • Flash

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1. List of paraphrases for "lightning":

   flash, thunderbolt, lightening, lightyear, thunder

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1. Jim Beam:

   Initial reports suggest the fire resulted from a lightning strike, and we will work with local authorities to confirm the cause and to remediate the impacts.

2. Eugene F. Ware:

   The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug

3. Alexander Knyazev:

   The IRPT, acting as a legal political force, had served as a lightning rod (for dissent), deflecting radical Islam, its closure and official pressure on its members is likely to push many pious Muslims out of officially registered mosques into underground ones.

4. Donald Graham:

   We've got an accumulation of vegetation. Our area was burned 50-70 years ago and it has not burned since, and at some point it will burn, it just needs a few things to come together, a few dry years and some lightning and neither of those are peculiar to the Australian landscape.

5. Clay Jordan:

   We know that, on average, a healthy forest would experience lightning strike fires about every 10 to 20 years and those fires would be low in intensity and would help burn up those excessive fuels -- keep the forest at a thin enough level so that the forest could thrive.