Thunder

Quick meaning: Thunder is a noun meaning The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

Meaning

The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

More Meanings

1. A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
2. An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
3. (literature) Synonym of thunder word.
4. (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
5. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
6. (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
7. (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.

Example Sentences

Thunder cracked overhead.

It thundered continuously.

Thunder is preceded by lightning.

The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.

Word Forms

• thunders
• thundering
• thundered
• thunderest
• thunderedst
• thundereth

Synonyms for thunder

Depending on context, synonyms include boom, roar, roaring.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boom, roaring, roar, thunderbolt, thundershower, storm.

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