thunder
Takođe pogledajte: thundër
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Engleski
EngleskiSistem
Etymology
From Srednji Engleski thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Stari Engleski þunor (“thunder”), from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *þunr, from Pra-Germanski *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Holandski donder, Nemački Donner, Old Norse Þórr (Engleski Thor), Danski torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latinski tonō, detonō, Antički Grčki στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irski torann, Velški taran, Gaulish Taranis. Dubleti of donner.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) MFA(ključ): /ˈθʌndə/
- (General American) enPR: thŭn′dər, MFA(ključ): /ˈθʌndɚ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio: (file) - Rime: -ʌndə(ɹ)
- Hifenacija: 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.
- Šablon:RQ:Prescott Peru
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- Šablon: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 (third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered)
- (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, “Forbidden Colours”, in David Sylvian (lyrics), Ryuichi Sakamoto (music), Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, performed by David Sylvian:
- Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?
- (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 januar 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal”, in BBC[1]:
- Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air.
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