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Definition of Thunder
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Thunder
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. Related Definitions:
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Thunder Quotations
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work. Mark Twain Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. Mark Twain Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I go where the sound of thunder is. Alfred M. Gray |
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Thunder Translations
thunder in Danish is torden, tordne thunder in Dutch is daveren, bulderen, donderen thunder in Finnish is ukkonen thunder in French is tonnerre thunder in German is Donner thunder in Italian is tuono thunder in Norwegian is torden thunder in Spanish is tronar, trueno |
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