saint ulmo's fire

Questions about saint ulmo's fire

What does saint ulmo's fire mean?

saint ulmo's fire means "an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere".

What is another word for saint ulmo's fire?

Close synonyms include corona discharge, corona, corposant, St. Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's fire. 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 saint ulmo's fire a common word?

saint ulmo's fire 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.