Saint Elmo's fire love

Saint Elmo's fire

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A visible electric discharge on a pointed object, such as the mast of a ship or the wing of an airplane, during an electrical storm.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of St. Elmo's fire.

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  • noun an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Saint Elmo, fourth-century AD patron saint of sailors.]

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