Noun: thunder
| Singular | thunder |
| Plural | thunders |
Sample Sentences
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Thunder is preceded by lightning.
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Thunder cracked overhead.
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With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific. [1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 493:]
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Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
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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:]
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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, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like thunder
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
thunder', Old English Nouns '
þunor', Dutch Nouns '
donder', German Nouns '
Donner', Old Norse Nouns '
Þórr', Danish Nouns '
torden', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
tore', Latin Nouns '
tonō', Irish Nouns '
torann'.
Verbs referencing "thunder"
German Nouns
Donner, Dutch Nouns
donder, Swedish Nouns
dunder.