thunder

Pronunciation: /ˈθʌndə/

The English word “thunder” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

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

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.

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…

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