thunder
Такође погледајте: thundër
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, Холандски donder, Немачки Donner, Old Norse Þórr (Енглески Thor), Дански torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Ирански تندر (tondar), Латински tonō, detonō, Антички Грчки στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Ирски torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Дублети of donner.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) МФА(кључ): /ˈθʌndə/
- (General American) enPR: thŭn′dər, МФА(кључ): /ˈθʌndɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Риме: -ʌndə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: thun‧der
Noun
thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- Thunder is preceded by lightning.
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- Шаблон:RQ:Prescott Peru
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- Шаблон:RQ:Prescott Peru
- (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- (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
- black thunder
- blood and thunder
- face like thunder
- steal someone's thunder
- thunder and lightning
- thunderation
- thunderbird
- thunderbolt
- thunderboomer
- thunderbox
- thunderclap
- thundercloud
- thunder cross
- thunderfish
- thunder god
- thunder god vine
- thunderhead
- thunderless
- thunder lizard
- thunder mug
- thunderous
- thunderpeal
- thunder pot
- thunder rod
- thundershower
- thunder sleet
- thunder snake
- thundersquall
- thunderstick
- thunderstone
- thunderstorm
- thunderstrike
- thunderstruck
- thunder thighs
- thunder tube
- thunder-wheel
- thundery
Translations
sound caused by lightning
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sound resembling thunder
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deep, rumbling noise
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Descendants
Verb
thunder
- (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- It thundered continuously.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
- The train thundered along the tracks.
- (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- 1983, David Sylvian (lyrics), Ryuichi Sakamoto (music), “Forbidden Colours”, in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, performed by David Sylvian:
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- (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.
- To produce something with incredible power.
- 2011 јануар 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC[1]:
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Conjugation
Conjugation of thunder
infinitive | (to) thunder | |||
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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
to make a noise like thunder
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to talk with a loud, threatening voice
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transitive: say something with a loud, threatening voice
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Middle English
Noun
thunder
- Alternative form of thonder
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