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.
The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
It thundered continuously.
The 13th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)te...
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To make a noise like thunder.
The train thundered along the tracks.
To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
Senseless years thunder by / Millions are willing to give their lives for you / Does nothing live on?