firestorm
firestorm noun: a fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
Noun
firestorm (plural firestorms)
- A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
- An intense or violent altercation; an intense or violent response; an outburst (as of controversy)
- In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]2012, Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, page 243
- This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.2015 March 4, Jill Jacobs, “Shmuley Boteach isn’t ‘America’s rabbi’”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2023
Synonyms of firestorm
Forms of firestorm
| plural | firestorms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fire storm |
| alternative form | fire-storm |
Origin of firestorm
From fire + storm.
Questions about firestorm
- What does firestorm mean?
- Firestorm means a fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
- What part of speech is firestorm?
- Firestorm is a noun.
- What is the plural of firestorm?
- The plural of firestorm is firestorms.
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