Usually means: Electrical discharge during thunderstorms, bright.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word lightning:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lightning: Merriam-Webster
  3. lightning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lightning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lightning: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lightning: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lightning, light'ning, lightning: Wordnik
  8. lightning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lightning: Wiktionary
  10. lightning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lightning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lightning: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lightning: Dictionary.com
  14. lightning: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lightning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lightning (DC Comics), Lightning (Entertainment City), Lightning (Final Fantasy), Lightning (Revere Beach), Lightning (Tom and Jerry), Lightning (album), Lightning (clipper), Lightning (connector), Lightning (dinghy), Lightning (disambiguation), Lightning (dog), Lightning (novel), Lightning (software): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lightning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lightning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lightning: Rhymezone
  20. lightning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lightning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Lightning: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. lightning: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. lightning: FreeDictionary.org
  25. lightning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. lightning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. lightning: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. Lightning (song), Lightning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lightning: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lightning: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. lightning: Idioms
  5. Third Eye's Paranormal (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lightning: Easton Bible

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightning: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Lightning: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  4. Lightning: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightning, lightning: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lightning: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. lightning: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See lightninged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
noun:  A discharge of this kind.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that moves very fast.
noun:  (archaic, slang) Gin.
adjective:  Extremely fast or sudden; moving (as if) at the speed of lightning.
verb:  (impersonal, childish or nonstandard, intransitive) To produce lightning.
noun:  Obsolete form of lightening. [The act or result of making something light or lighter.]

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