firestorm

1. 1.

   a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area

   Broaderstorm
2. 2.

   an outburst of controversy

   “the incident triggered a political firestorm”

   Broadercontroversy

Other forms of firestorm

plural

firestorms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about firestorm

What does firestorm mean?

firestorm means "a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firestorm?

firestorm has 2 syllables: fire-storm. The stress falls on "fire". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɹˌstɔɹm/.

Is firestorm a common word?

firestorm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with firestorm?

9 words rhyme with firestorm. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.