thunder
thuhn der
- n a deep prolonged loud noise
- n a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- n street names for heroin
- v move fast, noisily, and heavily
The bus thundered down the road - v utter words loudly and forcefully
- v be the case that thunder is being heard
Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed - v to make or produce a loud noise
The river thundered below
- When Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thoriumafter Thor, god of thunderthe choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed.