Thunderbolt

Word THUNDERBOLT
Character 11
Hyphenation thun der bolt
Pronunciations /ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/

Definitions and meanings of "Thunderbolt"

What do we mean by thunderbolt?

A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder. noun

A flash of lightning conceived as a bolt or dart hurled from the heavens. noun

A startling, forceful action. noun

To strike with or as with lightning.

A flash of lightning with the accompanying crash of thunder: so called because regarded as due to the hurling of a bolt or shaft at the object struck by the lightning. See def. 2. noun

The imaginary bolt or shaft (often regarded as a stone) conceived as the material agent or substance of a flash of lightning, and the cause of the accompanying crash of thunder: an attribute of Zeus or Jupiter as the god of thunder (Jupiter Tonans); specifically, in heraldry, a bearing representing a thunderbolt more or less like that of Jupiter. noun

A stone or other hard concretion of distinctive shape, usually tapering or spear-like, found in the ground, and supposed in popular superstition to have been the material substance of a thunderbolt (in sense 2), and to have fallen from heaven with the lightning. noun

Figuratively, one who is daring or irresistible; one who acts with fury or with sudden and resistless force. noun

A dreadful threat, denunciation, censure, or the like, proceeding from some high authority; a fulmination. noun

Plural The white campion (Lychnis vespertina), the corn-poppy (Papaver Rhœas), or the bladder-campion (Silene Cucubalus)—the last so named from the slight report made by exploding the inflated calyx. noun

A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. noun

Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. noun

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. noun

A belemnite, or thunderstone. noun

A long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. noun

A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder. noun

An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected. noun

A very powerful shot. noun

A belemnite, or thunderstone. noun

A shocking surprise noun

A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.

Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

A very powerful shot.

A belemnite, or thunderstone.

A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

A daring or irresistible hero.

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The word "thunderbolt" in example sentences

That which we call the thunderbolt is true as regards all the passions. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

Their downfall came sudden and terrible like “a thunderbolt from the blue.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, the word thunderbolt has survived to us from the days when people still believed that the thing which did the damage during a thunderstorm was really and truly a gigantic white-hot bolt or arrow; and, as there is a natural tendency in human nature to fit an existence to every word, people even now continue to imagine that there must be actually something or other somewhere called a thunderbolt. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

But those few fatal words, -- "The President Assassinated," -- fell upon us like a thunderbolt from a cloudless sky, so stunning us with the violence of the blow, that we heard as though we heard not. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Little Angel, since dog’s thunderbolt is going to cleave us, how much for your little sister? ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Then he showed us round his place -- I forget how many hundreds of acres of vines, and into the great building with the presses and pumps and casks and the huge barrel they call the thunderbolt -- and about seven o'clock we walked back to Darbisson to dinner, carrying our wine with us. ❋ Oliver [pseud.] Onions (1917)

A thunderbolt was a thunderbolt, and both kinds killed. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1992)

However that question may be answered, there remains the fact that the thunderbolt was a symbol of the power of Zeus, and its figure uniformly accompanied the effigy of the god. ❋ Various (N/A)

As an oak falls headlong when uprooted by the lightning flash of father Jove, and there is a terrible smell of brimstone — no man can help being dismayed if he is standing near it, for a thunderbolt is a very awful thing — even so did Hector fall to earth and bite the dust. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The surrounding mountains play an interminable game of which the thunderbolt is the football. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

The thunderbolt was a sort of toboggan on rollers, for which there was a slide running down presumably to the nether world, above mentioned. ❋ Herbert Quick (1893)

Below the thunderbolt is a tablet of brass, three inches square, on which is a raised number. ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)

-- This passage declares that this whole world trembles, abiding in prâ/n/a, and that there is raised something very terrible, called a thunderbolt, and that through its knowledge immortality is obtained. ❋ George Thibaut (1881)

As an oak falls headlong when uprooted by the lightning flash of father Jove, and there is a terrible smell of brimstone -- no man can help being dismayed if he is standing near it, for a thunderbolt is a very awful thing -- even so did Hector fall to earth and bite the dust. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1868)

That the thunderbolt is a substance may not be questioned. ❋ Henry Raymond Rogers (1861)

Black as a thunderbolt was the scowl that lowered over the brow of ❋ Grace Aguilar (1831)

Thunderbolt: A traditional expression for lightning or a symbolic representation, a thunderbolt has been a powerful symbol throughout history, and has appeared numerous times in mythology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A traditional expression for lightning or a symbolic representation, a thunderbolt has been a powerful symbol throughout history, and has appeared numerous times in mythology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hull City fans will recall his thunderbolt on the last day of last season in May and a repeat show could push him up the reckoning. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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