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Fireball

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Noun

1. bolide, fireball

an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)

2. ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo, powerhouse

a highly energetic and indefatigable person

3. fireball

a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning)

4. fireball

the luminous center of a nuclear explosion

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fireball

see synonyms of fireball
noun
1. 
a ball-shaped discharge of lightning
2. 
the bright spherical region of hot ionized gas at the centre of a nuclear explosion
3. astronomy another name for bolide
4. slang
an energetic person

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Fireball

see synonyms of fireball
noun
1. 
something resembling a ball of fire
; specif.,
a. 
a large, bright meteor
see also bolide
b. 
ball lightning
c. 
a high-temperature, luminous ball of gas which forms shortly after a nuclear explosion
2.  Obsolete
a ball of explosive or combustible material thrown as a weapon in battle
3.  US, Informal
a vigorous, energetic person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Fireball

see synonyms of fireball
n.
1. A brilliantly burning sphere.
2. A highly luminous, intensely hot spherical cloud of dust, gas, and vapor generated by a nuclear explosion.
3. See bolide.
4. See ball of fire.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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