fireworks
An event or a display where fireworks are set offAn event or a display where fireworks are set off.
Meaning
2 senses(plural, plural only)An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
Feuerwerk
фейерве́ркfejjervérk
феєрве́ркfejervérk
(figuratively, plural, plural only)A boisterous or violent event or situation.
I left the room after John came home drunk but before the fireworks went off.
Feuerwerk
фейерве́ркfejjervérk, фейерве́ркиfejjervérki
Translations
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Origin
From fire + work(s). The similarity with Dutch vuurwerk and German Feuerwerk, both “firewoFrom fire + work(s). The similarity with Dutch vuurwerk and German Feuerwerk, both “fireworks”, is hardly coincidental. Since the word was apparently first attested in English circa 1575, probably from the Dutch (1540), from the German (sense early 16th c.), from Middle High German viurwerc (14th c. as “fuel, firewood”). A spread from the south northwards is also in line with the fact that the first European fireworks were produced in Italy in the late 14th century.
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Forms
plural: fireworkses| Singular | fireworks |
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