thunder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
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.
Inflected forms:
form: thunders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thunders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thundering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: thunder
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: thunder
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: thunder
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: thunderest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: thunderedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: thunders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thundereth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: thunder
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: thunder
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: thunder
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: thundering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thundered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thunder is preceded by lightning.
Thunder cracked overhead.
With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.
gloss: A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
gloss: An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
gloss: The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
gloss: Synonym of thunder word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Adam's fall and Vico's thunder are embodied in a word of a hundred letters, the first of ten thunders in the Wake.
gloss: To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
examples: It thundered continuously.
gloss: To make a noise like thunder.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?
gloss: To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
gloss: To produce something with incredible power.
pos: verb
examples: Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.
Related words: lightning
thundering
Derived words: 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
thunder god
thunder god vine
thundergust
thunderhead
thunderless
thunderlight
thunderlike
thunder lizard
thunder moon
thunder mug
thundermug
thunderous
thunderpeal
thunder-plant
thunder-plump
thunder pot
thunderproof
thunder rod
thunder run
thunder sheet
thundershock
thundershower
thunder sleet
thunder snake
thundersnow
thundersome
thundersquall
thunder-stick
thunder stick
thunderstick
thunderstone
thunderstorm
thunderstricken
thunderstrike
thunderstruck
thunder tea rice
thunder-thighed
thunder thighs
thunder tube
thunder-wheel
thunderworm
thundery
upthunder
thundering herd problem
ythundered
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