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.

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Thunder Quotations

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
Jonathan Swift

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood

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

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph Addison

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
William Lyon Phelps

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
John Sergeant Wise

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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