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Etymology

From Srednji Engleski thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Stari Engleski þunor (“thunder”), from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *þunr, from Pra-Germanski *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).

Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Holandski donder, Nemački Donner, Old Norse Þórr (Engleski Thor), Danski torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latinski tonō, detonō, Antički Grčki στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irski torann, Velški taran, Gaulish Taranis. Dubleti of donner.

Pronunciation

Noun

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thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)

  1. The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
    Thunder is preceded by lightning.
  2. A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
    Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
  3. An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
  4. (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
  5. (figurative) The spotlight.
    Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole my thunder with his news of landing his dream job.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

Translations

Prevode u nastavku treba proveriti i umetnuti iznad u odgovarajuće tabele prevoda. Vidite instrukcije na Vikirečnik:Unos § Prevodi.

See also

Descendants

  • Tagalog: tanda
  • Alemannic German: Thönder

Verb

thunder (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.
    It thundered continuously.
  2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
    The train thundered along the tracks.
  3. (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
    "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
  5. To produce something with incredible power.
    • 2011 januar 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC‎[1]:
      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.

Conjugation

Conjugation of thunder
infinitive (to) thunder
present tense past tense
1st person singular thunder thundered
2nd person singular thunder, thunderest*
3rd person singular thunders, thundereth*
plural thunder
subjunctive thunder
imperative thunder —
participles thundering thundered
* Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

  • (to say something with a loud, threatening voice): thunderer

Translations

Prevode u nastavku treba proveriti i umetnuti iznad u odgovarajuće tabele prevoda. Vidite instrukcije na Vikirečnik:Unos § Prevodi.

See also

Middle English

Noun

thunder

  1. Alternative form of thonder
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