See lightning bolt on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "lightning bolts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lightning bolt (plural lightning bolts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "34 31 34 2",
"word": "thunderbolt"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 25 37 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lightning",
"orig": "en:Lightning",
"parents": [
"Atmospheric phenomena",
"Electricity",
"Light sources",
"Weather",
"Atmosphere",
"Electromagnetism",
"Light",
"Nature",
"Physics",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1913, Popular Electricity and the World's Advance, page 192:",
"text": "Shortly after dinner one day — it was a hot summer afternoon — a very severe thunderstorm broke out over the city and after it had lasted some ten to fifteen minutes an exceptionally bright lightning bolt flashed through the air followed immediately by a terrific crash of thunder.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A single, visible discharge of lightning."
],
"id": "en-lightning_bolt-en-noun-0aBEYMaA",
"links": [
[
"lightning",
"lightning"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "53 22 24 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bliksemflits"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 22 24 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blitz"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 22 24 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "keravnós",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κεραυνός"
},
{
"_dis1": "53 22 24 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "blixt"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 25 37 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lightning",
"orig": "en:Lightning",
"parents": [
"Atmospheric phenomena",
"Electricity",
"Light sources",
"Weather",
"Atmosphere",
"Electromagnetism",
"Light",
"Nature",
"Physics",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line."
],
"id": "en-lightning_bolt-en-noun-72zX490F",
"links": [
[
"zigzag",
"zigzag"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 7 64 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 7 60 25",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 8 73 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 3 66 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 8 55 27",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 9 55 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 18 52 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 8 57 26",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "33 25 37 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lightning",
"orig": "en:Lightning",
"parents": [
"Atmospheric phenomena",
"Electricity",
"Light sources",
"Weather",
"Atmosphere",
"Electromagnetism",
"Light",
"Nature",
"Physics",
"Energy",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch."
],
"id": "en-lightning_bolt-en-noun-qsHwBuir",
"links": [
[
"heraldry",
"heraldry"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Mary Ashburn Miller, A Natural History of Revolution, →ISBN:",
"text": "In this sense there was an uncomfortable similarity between the lettre de cachet, the “lightning bolt of despotism,” and the people that judged, not like a court of law, but like a force of nature.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Trisha David, Falling For Jack, →ISBN:",
"text": "She'd found her lightning bolt, but he didn't want her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:",
"text": "In Conte Chelsea have something different, a manager who inherited a messy, enervated squad fresh from the worst title defence in 25 years and threw a lightning bolt through pretty much the same group of players to create a fresh champion team.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly."
],
"id": "en-lightning_bolt-en-noun-xaQOTK~k",
"links": [
[
"shock",
"shock"
],
[
"energize",
"energize"
],
[
"suddenly",
"suddenly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"word": "lightning bolt"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Lightning"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "lightning bolts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lightning bolt (plural lightning bolts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "thunderbolt"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1913, Popular Electricity and the World's Advance, page 192:",
"text": "Shortly after dinner one day — it was a hot summer afternoon — a very severe thunderstorm broke out over the city and after it had lasted some ten to fifteen minutes an exceptionally bright lightning bolt flashed through the air followed immediately by a terrific crash of thunder.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A single, visible discharge of lightning."
],
"links": [
[
"lightning",
"lightning"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A conventional representation of a lightning bolt as a zigzag line."
],
"links": [
[
"zigzag",
"zigzag"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A conventional representation of a lightning bolt in heraldry or in artistic depictions of thunder gods, for example as a winged and barbed torch."
],
"links": [
[
"heraldry",
"heraldry"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Mary Ashburn Miller, A Natural History of Revolution, →ISBN:",
"text": "In this sense there was an uncomfortable similarity between the lettre de cachet, the “lightning bolt of despotism,” and the people that judged, not like a court of law, but like a force of nature.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Trisha David, Falling For Jack, →ISBN:",
"text": "She'd found her lightning bolt, but he didn't want her.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian:",
"text": "In Conte Chelsea have something different, a manager who inherited a messy, enervated squad fresh from the worst title defence in 25 years and threw a lightning bolt through pretty much the same group of players to create a fresh champion team.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly."
],
"links": [
[
"shock",
"shock"
],
[
"energize",
"energize"
],
[
"suddenly",
"suddenly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative) Something that shocks or energizes, especially something that does so suddenly."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bliksemflits"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Blitz"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "keravnós",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "κεραυνός"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "single visible lightning discharge",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "blixt"
}
],
"word": "lightning bolt"
}
Download raw JSONL data for lightning bolt meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.