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thundercloud

noun

Etymology

From thunder + cloud.

  1. derived from *gel-✻ — “to ball up, clench”
  2. inherited from *klūtaz✻
  3. inherited from *klūt✻
  4. inherited from clūd — “mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”
  5. inherited from cloud
  6. compounded as thundercloud — “thunder + cloud”

Definitions

  1. A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing…

    A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning.

  2. Something menacing and brooding.

    • the ominous thunderclouds of war

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA