thunderとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌndə/
• (General American) enPR: thŭn′dər, IPA^(key): /ˈθʌndɚ/
• 韻: -ʌndə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: thun‧der

名詞

thunder (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 thunders)

1. The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.

   Thunder is preceded by lightning.

2. A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.

   Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.

3. An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
   • Prescott

     The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.

4. (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
   • Shakespeare

     The revenging gods / 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend.

5. (figuratively) The spotlight.

   Shortly after I announced my pregnancy, he stole my thunder with his news of landing his dream job.

使用する際の注意点

• roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder e.g. A series of rolls/claps/peals of thunder were heard

派生語

参考

• ceraunomancy
• lightning

動詞

thunder (三人称単数 現在形 thunders, 現在分詞 thundering, 過去形および過去分詞形 thundered)

1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.

   It thundered continuously.

2. (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.

   The train thundered along the tracks.

3. (intransitive) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
4. (transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.

   "Get back to work at once!", he thundered.

5. To produce something with incredible power
   • 2011 January 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.

派生語

• (to say something with a loud, threatening voice): thunderer

参考

• thundering