Definition of "thunder"

thunder

/ˈθʌndə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural thunders
1. The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
2. A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
3. An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
  Quotations
  The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
  1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
4. (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
  Quotations
  The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
5. (figuratively) The spotlight.
6. (literature) Synonym of thunder word
  Quotations
  Adam's fall and Vico's thunder are embodied in a word of a hundred letters, the first of ten thunders in the Wake.
  1996, William York Tindall, A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, page 31
verb
third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered
1. (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
3. (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
  Quotations
  Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?
  1983, “Forbidden Colours”, in David Sylvian (lyrics), Ryuichi Sakamoto (music), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, performed by David Sylvian
4. (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
5. To produce something with incredible power.
  Quotations
  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.
  2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC‎

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