lightning conductor

1. 1.

   a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning

   Synonymslightning rod

   Broaderconductor

Questions about lightning conductor

What does lightning conductor mean?

lightning conductor means "a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning".

What is another word for lightning conductor?

Close synonyms include lightning rod. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lightning conductor a common word?

lightning conductor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.