thunder
Plural: 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
Verb Forms: thundered, thundering, thunders
- To produce a loud, resounding sound, like that of thunder.
- 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.
Examples
- "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
- His voice would THUNDER across the room whenever a challenge was incorrectly called.
- It thundered continuously.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
- The train thundered along the tracks.
- Thunder is preceded by lightning.
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
thunder: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordthunder: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thunder: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary