wildfire
/ˈwaɪldˌfaɪər/
wildfire noun: a rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
Noun
wildfire (countable and uncountable, plural wildfires)
- A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
- Synonyms:
- forest fire
- Greek fire.
- A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.
- Something that acts or spreads quickly and uncontrollably.
- So, it appears a revolution has happened and a very unexpected one. Of course it was only a matter of time before it happened. With WiFi connectivity spreading faster than wildfire and a laptop or tablet in one’s bag, what’s the point of a mobile nowadays?2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, in The Daily Telegraph
- “It was my own personal watch and I wanted to change the face,” she said in an interview during a recent business trip to New York. “I started wearing it, and it was wildfire — everybody wanted one.”2022 December 9, Rachel Felder, “These Timex Dials Were Designed With a Jeweler’s Eye”, in The New York Times
wildfire meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
wildfire in Tamil
- rapidly spreading fire
- காட்டுத்தீ kāṭṭuttī
- something that acts quickly and uncontrollably
- காட்டுத்தீ kāṭṭuttī
wildfire in Marathi
- rapidly spreading fire
- वणवा vaṇvā
wildfire in Urdu
- جنگل کی آگ
wildfire in Bengali
- rapidly spreading fire
- দাবানল dabanol
More languagesFewer languages
- wildfire in Telugu
- దావాగ్ని dāvāgni
- wildfire in Malayalam
- കാട്ടുതീ kāṭṭutī
- wildfire in Kannada
- ಕಾಳ್ಗಿಚ್ಚು, ಕಾಡಿನಕಿಚ್ಚು
- wildfire in Punjabi
- ਜੰਗਲੀ ਅੱਗ jaṅglī agga
- wildfire in Gujarati
- દાવાનળ dāvānaḷ
- wildfire in Nepali
- जङ्गली आगो
- wildfire in Arabic
- حَرِيق هَائِل ḥarīq hāʔil
- wildfire in Persian
- آتشسوزی âtaš-suzi
- wildfire in Vietnamese
- chất cháy
Examples of wildfire in a sentence
- There are lots of people with no homes after the wildfire.
- Make for the hills! It's a wildfire!
- The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
Synonyms of wildfire
Forms of wildfire
| plural | wildfires |
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Origin of wildfire
Inherited from Middle English wilde fyr, wilde fire, wylde fyre, from Old English wilde fȳr. By surface analysis, wild + fire.
Words formed from wildfire
Phrases with wildfire
Questions about wildfire
- What does wildfire mean?
- Wildfire means a rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
- What is wildfire in Tamil?
- Wildfire in Tamil is காட்டுத்தீ (kāṭṭuttī). See Wildfire meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wildfire?
- Wildfire is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wildfire?
- Wildfire is pronounced /ˈwaɪldˌfaɪər/.
- What is the plural of wildfire?
- The plural of wildfire is wildfires.
Words near wildfire in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wildfire (page history and authors); wildfire (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wildfire (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); દાવાનળ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); wildfire (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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