thunder
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
Synonym of thunder word.
Verb 4 meanings
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
“It thundered continuously.”
To make a noise like thunder.
“The train thundered along the tracks.”
To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
“"Get back to work at once!", he thundered.”
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.
THUNDER at a glance
THUNDER has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (T 1 + H 4 + U 1 + N 1 + D 2 + E 1 + R 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,647 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with thunder
All rhymes- UNDER6
- ORDER6
- CONSIDER11
- LEADER7
- WONDER10
- OLDER6
- MURDER9
- BORDER9
- GENDER8
- HARDER10
- COMMANDER16
- SHOULDER12
One letter away
- CHUNDER13
- THONDER11
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