Usually means: Sound from lightning in storms.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word thunder:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. thunder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thunder: Merriam-Webster
  3. thunder, thunder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thunder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thunder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thunder: Vocabulary.com
  7. THunder, Thunder, thunder: Wordnik
  8. thunder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Thunder, thunder: Wiktionary
  10. thunder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thunder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thunder: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thunder: Dictionary.com
  14. thunder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. thunder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Thunder (TV series), Thunder (Andy Taylor album), Thunder (Boys Like Girls song), Thunder (G.I. Joe), Thunder (Imagine Dragons song), Thunder (Jessie J song), Thunder (Leona Lewis song), Thunder (Prince song), Thunder (SMV album), Thunder (TV series), Thunder (The Batman), Thunder (band), Thunder (comics), Thunder (disambiguation), Thunder (film), Thunder (horse), Thunder (luchador), Thunder (mascot), Thunder (ship), Thunder (singer), Thunder (song), Thunder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Thunder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. thunder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. thunder: Rhymezone
  20. thunder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. thunder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Thunder: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Thunder: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. thunder: FreeDictionary.org
  25. thunder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. thunder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. thunder: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Thunder: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  2. Thunder: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thunder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thunder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THUNDER: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. thunder: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Thunder: Easton Bible
  2. Thunder: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. thunder, thunder: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Thunder: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. thunder: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See thundered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
noun:  A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
noun:  An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
noun:  (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
noun:  (figuratively) The spotlight.
noun:  (literature) Synonym of thunder word
verb:  (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
verb:  (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
verb:  To produce something with incredible power.
noun:  The 13th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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