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thunder

See also:thundër

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishthunder,thonder,thundre,thonre,thunnere,þunre,fromOld Englishþunor(“thunder”),fromProto-West Germanic*þunr,fromProto-Germanic*þunraz,fromProto-Indo-European*(s)ten-,*(s)tenh₂-(“to thunder”).

Compareastound,astonish,stun.Germanic cognates includeWest Frisiantonger,Dutchdonder,GermanDonner,Old NorseÞórr(EnglishThor),Danishtorden,Norwegian Nynorsktore.Other cognates includePersianتندر(tondar),Latintonō,detonō,Ancient Greekστένω(sténō),στενάζω(stenázō),στόνος(stónos),Στέντωρ(Sténtōr),Irishtorann,Welshtaran,GaulishTaranis.Doubletofdonner,Thunor,andThor.

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Noun

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thunder(countableanduncountable,pluralthunders)

  1. The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashingsoundcaused by expansion of rapidly heated air around alightningbolt.
    Thunderis preceded by lightning.
    • 1953July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, inRailway Magazine,page493:
      With each clap ofthunderechoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.
  2. A deep,rumblingnoise resembling thunder.
    Off in the distance, he heard thethunderof hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
  3. An alarming or startlingthreatordenunciation.
    • 1847,William H. Prescott,A History of the Conquest of Peru:
      Thethundersof the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
  4. (obsolete)Thedischargeofelectricity;athunderbolt.
  5. (Can weverify(+)this sense?)(figuratively)Thespotlight.
    Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole mythunderwith his news of landing his dream job.
  6. (literature)Synonym ofthunder word
    • 1996,William York Tindall,A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake,page31:
      Adam's fall and Vico's thunder are embodied in a word of a hundred letters, the first of tenthundersin the Wake.

Usage notes

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  • roll,clap,pealare some of the words used to count thunder e.g.A series of rolls/claps/peals of thunder were heard

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • →Alemannic German:Thönder
  • →Japanese:サンダー(sandā)
  • →Tagalog:tanders
  • →Tok Pisin:tanda

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Verb

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thunder(third-person singular simple presentthunders,present participlethundering,simple past and past participlethundered)

  1. (impersonal)To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
    Itthunderedcontinuously.
  2. (intransitive)To make anoiselike thunder.
    The trainthunderedalong the tracks.
  3. (ergative)To (make something)moveveryfast(with loud noise).
  4. (intransitive,transitive)To say (something) with aloud,threateningvoice.
    "Get back to work at once!", hethundered.
  5. To produce something with incredible power.
    • 2011January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, inBBC‎[1]:
      Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality,thunderinga 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.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofthunder
infinitive (to)thunder
present tense past tense
1st-personsingularthunder thundered
2nd-personsingular thunder,thunderest† thundered,thunderedst†
3rd-personsingular thunders,thundereth† thundered
plural thunder
subjunctive thunder thundered
imperative thunder —
participles thundering thundered

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Middle English

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Noun

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thunder

  1. Alternative form ofthonder
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