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How to pronounce “thunder”
Hear “thunder” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for thunder
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of thunder with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Sharks Through the Film Business
in welcoming Thunder Levin, the writer of "Sharknado."
- Definition summary
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce thunder
Sharks Through the Film Business

in welcoming Thunder Levin, the writer of "Sharknado."
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “thunder”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- (literature) Synonym of thunder word.
- [Verb]
- (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
- (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- To produce something with incredible power.
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