flame
/fleɪm/
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Translation
The bright, hot, moving light that you see in a fire.
Word origin
From Old French flamme, from Latin flamma, meaning a blaze of fire.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- flamma
Grammar
Gender
Pluralflames
Examples
burned top candle.
"Flame" is the bright, hot light of a fire.
bright.
"Flames" is the plural, meaning more than one flame.
lit match .
Here "flame" is the little fire on the match.
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