saint elmo's fire

Questions about saint elmo's fire

What is another word for saint elmo's fire?

It depends which saint elmo's fire you mean. In the sense “an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere”, the synonyms are corona discharge, corona, corposant, St. Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, electric glow. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of saint elmo's fire?

WordNet records no antonym for saint elmo's fire. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for saint elmo's fire come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for saint elmo's fireAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for saint elmo's fireWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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