thunder
Meanings
Plural: thunder, thundered, thunders
Noun
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
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- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- Synonym of thunder word.
Verb
- move fast, noisily, and heavily
- "The bus thundered down the road"
- utter words loudly and forcefully
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"
- to make or produce a loud noise
- "The river thundered below"
- To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- To make a noise like thunder.
- To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- To produce something with incredible power.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 11
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