thunder
nounEtymology
From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner, Thunor, and Thor.
Definitions
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air…
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- Thunder is preceded by lightning.
- Thunder cracked overhead.
- With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.
A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
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The discharge of electricity
The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
Synonym of thunder word.
- Adam's fall and Vico's thunder are embodied in a word of a hundred letters, the first of ten thunders in the Wake.
To produce thunder
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- It thundered continuously.
To make a noise like thunder.
- The train thundered along the tracks.
- The farmer whose land the Pratincole had chosen to frequent had such an adversion to birders that he had been thundering up and down all day in a high-powered muck-spreader, splattering them with cow dung!
- His words landed like a bomb, and my ears thundered with noise.
To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?
To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
To produce something with incredible power.
The 13th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
The neighborhood
- neighborlightning
- neighborthundering
Derived
black as thunder, black thunder, blood and thunder, by thunder, castle thunder, Chad Thundercock, face like thunder, heat thunder, in thunder, outthunder, rethunder, steal someone's thunder, thunder and lightning, thunderation, thunder beast, thunderbird, thunderblast, thunderbolt, thunderboomer, thunderbox, thunderbug, thunderburst, thunderclap, thundercloud, thunder cloud, thundercrack, thundercrash, thunder cross, thundercunt, Thunderdome, thunder-drum, thunderdunk, thunderegg, thunder egg, thunder fever, thunder fire, thunderfish, thunderflash, thunderfly, thunderful · +45 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at thunder. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at thunder. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at thunder
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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