fireworks

Betekenis (Engels)

plural of firework.

firework

A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

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Sinonieme

firework

rocket

🚀

firecracker

🧨

ray

spark

sparkler

🎇

cracker

Catherine-wheel

crackers

pyrotechnics

Vertalings

Feuerwerk

🎆

vuurwerk

🎆

feu d’artifice

fuochi d’artificio

fuegos artificiales

fogos de artifício

pirotecnia

fuego artificial

fuoco d’artificio

agirbazî

🎆

πυροτεχνήματα

πυροτέχνημα

focs artificials

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfaɪ̯.ə.wɜːks/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Nederlands: vuurwerk

Verwante met Duits: Feuerwerk

In summary

From 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.