lightning strike

English

Lightning strike (sense 1)

Noun

lightning strike (plural lightning strikes)

1. A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight.
2. (British) A (sometimes unofficial) strike by workers with little or no warning.

Related terms

• (sense 1) lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• (sense 2) wildcat strike

Translations

event during an electrical storm

• Arabic: صَاعِقَة f (ṣāʕiqa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 落雷 (zh) (luòléi)

• Dutch: blikseminslag (nl) m
• Greek: κεραυνός (el) (keravnós), χτύπημα κεραυνού (chtýpima keravnoú)
• Japanese: いなずま (ja)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lynnedslag n

  Nynorsk: lynnedslag n

• Old English: līeġetsliht m
• Romanian: lovitură de trăsnet (ro) f
• Swedish: blixtnedslag (sv) n, åsknedslag (sv) n
• Thai: ฟ้าผ่า (th) (fáa-pàa)

References

• “lightning strike”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.