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firestorms

firestorms is the plural of firestorm.

Meaning of firestorm

Noun

firestorm (plural firestorms)

  1. A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
  2. (figuratively) 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

Questions about firestorms

What is firestorms the plural of?
Firestorms is the plural of firestorm.

Words near firestorms in the dictionary

  1. firestones
  2. firestop
  3. firestopping
  4. firestops
  5. firestorm
  6. firestorms
  7. firestream
  8. firestreams
  9. firestriker
  10. firestrikers
  11. firesuit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firestorms (page history and authors); firestorm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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