0 the sudden loud noise that comes from the sky especially during a storm: --
2 the sudden, loud noise that comes after a flash of lightning: --
a clap of thunder
The theme is worked up into a massive texture of blaring trumpets and thundering percussion.
Their presence was all the more sinister amidst the approaching thunder of anticlericalism.
Men are made of rock and thunder: threat of storm to labor under.
In 1989, it was proved that thunder is not caused by the thermal expansion of the lightning channel.
The thunder and lightning storm is a real one coming across from the mainland.
As soon as the paddles plunged into the river, fierce thunder shook the land.
Jarred awake by a sudden clap of thunder, she found herself pregnant, and soon after, bore a supernatural child.
The storm rushed over the fairgrounds carrying the deafening explosion of electricity and thunder.
