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lightning:
- foudre; éclair; feu céleste; fulguration; éclairs; fulgurations
Wiktionary:
- lightning → foudre, éclair
- lightning → fulgurant
- lightning → foudre, éclair

English

Detailed Translations for lightning from English to French

lightning:

lightning [the ~] nomen

the lightning (summer lightning; sheet lightning; heat lightning)
la foudre; l'éclair
- foudre [la ~] nomen
- éclair [le ~] nomen
the lightning
l'éclair; le feu céleste; la fulguration
- éclair [le ~] nomen
- feu céleste [le ~] nomen
- fulguration [la ~] nomen
the lightning (flashes of lightning)
l'éclairs; la fulgurations
- éclairs [le ~] nomen
- fulgurations [la ~] nomen

Translation Matrix for lightning:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
feu céleste	lightning
foudre	heat lightning; lightning; sheet lightning; summer lightning	bolt; clap of thunder; flash of lightning; streak; thunderbolt
fulguration	lightning
fulgurations	flashes of lightning; lightning
éclair	heat lightning; lightning; sheet lightning; summer lightning	bolt; clap of thunder; flash; flash of lightning; flashlight; flicker; flickering; glint; glittering; light signal; shine; sparkle; streak; thunderbolt
éclairs	flashes of lightning; lightning

Related Words for "lightning":

lightnings

Synonyms for "lightning":

atmospheric electricity
flash

Related Definitions for "lightning":

the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more¹
abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light¹

Wiktionary Translations for lightning:

lightning

noun

discharge
- lightning → foudre
flash of light
- lightning → éclair

lightning

noun

Fluide électrique
- foudre → lightning
Lumière vive et soudaine causé par la foudre
- éclair → flash; lightning
Éclat de lumière
- éclair → flash; lightning

adjective

Qui produire des éclairs.
- fulgurant → lightning; dazzling

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• lightning	→ foudre	↔ hemelvuur — (formeel, nld) bliksem
• lightning	→ éclair; foudre	↔ Blitz — Physik, Meteorologie: sichtbare Lichterscheinung bei einer elektrischen Entladung

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