thunder
Speech parts
1. thunder - Noun
2. thunder - Verb
3. Thunder - Proper noun
Meaning
The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
To utter violent denunciation.
To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.
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They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Unless the thunder strikes, a man won't cross himself.
Clouds that thunder do not always rain.
A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain.